Scrivere la fine: esercito e letteratura nell’Impero asburgico (1848-1918)

At the end of the First World War, many historians, but also journalists, writers, politicians, who had lived in the Austro-Hungarian territories described the final years of the Hapsburg Empire. In their works, soldiers, especially officers, played a leading role. The article seeks to explain why the world of military personnel, despite being defeated, was chosen to represent the dissolution of the empire and why it became in those years an important part of the so-called “Hapsburg myth