Original scientific paper
Summary: One or several wars? – Seven servicemen’s memoirs tied to western Croatia
Filip Hameršak
orcid.org/0000-0003-1288-4272
; The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As opposed to simplified understandings of the sense and course of the First World War, this paper underscores the need for reconstruction of the diverse motivational and general experiential complex of its participants. For this occasion, the published memoirs of six Austro-Hungarian junior officers and one ordinary serviceman (a sailor) have been selected. By birth or service, they were tied to western Croatia, but with different ethnic, political, social and religious identities: Lujo Lovrić, Ivan Ribar, Frane Dubravčić, Milan Japunčić, Lavoslav Kraus, Georg von Trapp and Marko Orešković.
Keywords
First World War; Austria-Hungary; Croatia and Slavonia; Istria; Lika; Rijeka; autobiography; military history; methodology
Hrčak ID:
284382
URI
Publication date:
11.11.2021.
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