Later that protagonist is sent to the Russian border and falls under the sway of the cynical Polish landowner Count Chojnicki, who claims that ethnic minorities brought about the nationalism that will spell the (*) empire's demise in World War I.
In this novel, a Jewish surgeon is miraculously cured of myopia while fighting with an anti-Semitic captain in a duel that will kill them both. This novel's protagonist shares a glass of raspberry juice with a sergeant, after the sergeant returns the love letters the protagonist wrote to the sergeant's wife, who died in childbirth as the result of their affair. Later that protagonist is sent to the Russian border and falls under the sway of the cynical Polish landowner Count Chojnicki, who claims that ethnic minorities brought about the nationalism that will spell the (*) empire's demise in World War I. This novel's sequel, The Emperor's Tomb, continues the story to the Anschluss, and it begins with the Slovenian peasant Joseph saving Emperor Franz Josef from snipers at the battle of Solferino. Concerning several generations of the Trotta family, for 10 points, name this novel by Joseph Roth, named after a nationalistic piece of music. 
In this novel, a Jewish surgeon is miraculously cured of myopia while fighting with an anti-Semitic captain in a duel that will kill them both.
Radetzky March [or Radetzkymarsch]