The Radetzky March: expected a bit more, March 5, 2004
Reviewer: Vladimir Stavitsky (see more about me) from Fair Lawn, NJ United States
It's a beautiful prose, some pages funny and sarcastic, with keen political observations, some other pages darkly poetic, like the final chapters, where people learn about the death of archduke Francis Ferdinand during this wild celebration ... also one of the best, really tragic, descriptions of the first days of war.

Still, the main character, young von Trotta, is not shown with all the psychological nuance one might expect from a book like this. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
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