NOUN
- a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II
- a town in Czech Republic; site of the battle of Austerlitz in 1805
How To Use Austerlitz In A Sentence
- In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche. Blending Fact With Fiction
- Austria who eyed the battle of Austerlitz from the heights whilst Buonaparte was active in the thickest of the fight Contents of _Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley_
- The results -- and the new one, "Austerlitz," is one of his best -- are both documentary and dreamlike. The Art Of Autumn
- A stands for Antwerp, Austerlitz, Agata, Aychenwald, and scores of other proper names round which the novel moves.
- Our eyes fall on the name Austerlitz down in the mosaic of the crypt. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
- Sebald ' s mesmerizing blend of fiction, encyclopedic detail and travelogue in " Austerlitz " (2001) and " The Emigrants " (1993) — both grounded in the experiences of Jewish children in the Holocaust — Ms. Franklin finds a painstaking strategy for restoring people and places to life. Trying to Show the Unknowable
- At Austerlitz, the greatest of all the Emperor's victories so far, Marshal Soult had covered himself with glory, far outfighting Marshal Bernadotte who, nevertheless, was now Prince of Ponte Corvo. Sharpe's Havoc
- I can easily carry it anywhere for literary solace. 2 "Austerlitz" by W.G. Sebald. BOOKS: Louise Erdrich
- Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz - French troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo - Austrian force.
- I'm thinking especially of the photographs that accompany Austerlitz's architectural disquisitions.
