The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth
This is the quintessential book about the end of the Habsburg empire and the preface to the First World War. It evokes for me all of those romantic and melancholy things about the Balkans — very evocative, by a gifted and tragic author who killed himself in Paris.
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