"The time no longer wants us!" This sentence from Joseph Roth's 'Radetzky March' is the key to the melancholic feeling of life in this great family novel. What happens to people when their fate is linked to a specific era destined for downfall? What is to be made of all the 'values' once believed in when they suddenly prove to be historical? In the family history of the von Trotta family, the glory and downfall of the Habsburg monarchy are reflected. "Joseph Roth was a warm-hearted analyst and a disciplined conversationalist, a merciful and relentless storyteller." Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Die Zeit "'Radetzky March' is the most beautiful book in the world. The saddest. The most sentimental. The most wondrous. It is a miracle." Volker Weidermann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung with the contribution to the work.