SVETOZAR BOROJEVIĆ: O RATU PROTIV ITALIJE
SVETOZAR BOROJEVIĆ: “ON THE WAR AGAINST ITALY”

Author(s): Željko Holjevac
Subject(s): Military history, Croatian Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Svetozar Borojević; Italy; Austria-Hungary; World War I;
Summary/Abstract: The author briefly reviews the pamphlet written by Svetozar Borojević with the title “On the War Against Italy”, which was published in Ljubljana in 1923, translated by Lt. Col. Mile J. Kasumović, in editions in both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It had a foreword written by Hugo Werk under the pseudonym Adriaticus. In it, Borojević refuted the claims made in the daily command of the Italian military’s supreme commander, Marshal Diaz on 4 November 1918, i.e., only a day after the signing of the truce with the already fallen Austria-Hungary, that the Italian army, although weaker in numbers and supplies, had won the war. He demonstrated that the Italians had five times the number of infantry troops and an artillery that was ten times stronger, but that the western powers still had to save Italy from complete collapse during the war. The Ljubljana edition of “On the War Against Italy” received a positive review in 17 November 1923 edition of the newspaper Agramer Tagblatt, a Zagreb-based German-language periodical, which particularly highlighted this concluding observation made by Borojević: “Italy can back its arguments in all possible ways at the peace conference, but not on the basis of the sanctity of treaties and the success of its arms”.

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