ZAŠTO VOJSKOVOĐU SVETOZARA BOROJEVIĆA OD BOJNE TREBA ZADRŽATI U SJEĆANJU
WHY SHOULD SVETOZAR BOROEVIĆ VON BOJNA BE REMEMBERED?

Author(s): Mira Kolar-Dimitrijević
Subject(s): Military history, Political history, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Svetozar Boroević of Bojna; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Croatia; World War I;
Summary/Abstract: Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević (Borojević) von Bojna (Umetići, 13 Dec. 1856 - Klagenfurt, 23 May 1920) was an exceptional personality in Croatiaʼs military history. His exemplary life and wartime career could not, based on the prevalent rules of war of that time, secure him any kind of post-war livelihood, and as a participant on the losing side he endured all of the consequences imposed upon the defeated by the victors, and he found almost no understanding among his fellow nationals. He contacted many in the belief that an honourable life merited honourable treatment, but this was not borne out. The knowledge that all of the previous values had disappeared, and his subsequent fall into hardship and oblivion must have certainly led to his untimely death in 1920. Many years of silence followed thereafter, until 2007, when Boroević, as a Croat of Orthodox faith, was once more spoken of with respect.

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