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I don’t know how I could have lived so long before reading such a marvellous book. In a brilliant passage in The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth describes how the news of that world-changing event slowly seeps into the consciousness of a drunken outdoor celebration on the far eastern margins of the Austro-Hungarian empire as a storm breaks on one sultry night in July 1914.īut that is just one of many such superb passages in The Radetzky March. Just as the our century seems likely to be defined by the act of terrorism perpetrated in New York in 2001, so was the twentieth century defined by the shots fired in Sarajevo in 1914.

Gerry Cordon on Joseph Roth’s classic 1932 novel about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire…