![]() He had an average military gift, of which he provided average samples at maneuvers every year he was a good husband, suspicious of women, no gambler, grouchy, but a just officer, a fierce enemy of all deceit, unmanly conduct, cowardly safety, garrulous praise, and ambitious self–seeking. In keeping with his status, Trotta married his colonel’s not-quite-young well–off niece, the daughter of a district captain in western Bohemia he fathered a boy, enjoyed the uniformity of his healthy military life in the small garrison, rode horseback to the parade ground every morning, and played chess every afternoon with the lawyer at the café, eventually feeling at home in his rank, his station, his standing, and his repute. ![]() ![]() The round years rolled by, one by one, like peaceful, uniform wheels. “Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!” Isaiah 17:12Įmpires rise and fall… Dynasties appear and dissipate… The Radetzky March is a story about a perishment of both an empire and a family. ![]()
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