Robert Musil, one of the most important authors of the twentieth-century German-written literature, fought in the Austrian army at the Italian front. During the First World War, between 1916 and 1917, Musil was chief editor of the <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic">Tiroler Soldaten-Zeitung</hi> in Bozen. This activity has always been a philological problem for Musil scholars, who have not been able to attribute with certainty a range of texts to the author. However, their identification is fundamental in the study of his political thinking. With this paper, we present a new approach, that combines historical and philological research with stylometric methods.