For example, I can easily picture this scene: I tend to enjoy writing of an earlier time period, and this book is right up my alley. The writing is descriptive and evocative. I read the English translation from the original German by Joachim Neugroschel and he has done a marvelous job. The downward trajectory of the family mirrors that of Austria-Hungary. Carl Joseph gets involved in gambling, affairs, and drinking. Carl Joseph, son of Herr von Trotta, joins the cavalry. Herr von Trotta is a devotee of the Empire, but eventually becomes disillusioned. His son, the second Baron called Herr von Trotta, becomes an administrative official. He is a man of integrity who protests when a fabricated version of his heroism is published in history texts. As a reward, the Emperor bestows an award that carries a noble title, and he becomes Baron Trotta von Sipolje. It opens in 1859 when Emperor Franz Joseph is almost killed in the Battle of Solferino but is saved by Lt. Published in 1932, this book portrays the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the perspective of three generations of the Trotta family.
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