The Emperor: Franz Joseph in Austrian field marshal uniform.
In 1859, the Austrian Empire (1804–67) was fighting the Second War of Italian Independence (29 April – 11 July 1859), against French and Italian belligerents: Napoleon III of France, the Emperor of the French, and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. Radetzky March relates the stories of three generations of the Trotta family, professional Austro-Hungarian soldiers and career bureaucrats of Slovenian origin - from their zenith during the empire to the nadir and breakup of that world during and after the First World War. The novel was published in English translation in 1933, and in a new, more literal, translation in 1995. Roth continues his account of the Trotta family to the time of the Anschluss in his The Emperor's Tomb ( Kapuzinergruft, 1938). Radetzkymarsch is an early example of a story that features the recurring participation of a historical figure, in this case the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916). Radetzky March ( German: Radetzkymarsch) is a 1932 family saga novel by Joseph Roth chronicling the decline and fall of Austria-Hungary via the story of the Trotta family. 978-1-58567-326-1 (English translation by Joachim Neugroschel)
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