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"The grand scheme of things" does not make the phase "History is written by the victors" correct. That is only true if the losers are destroyed and thus never write about it.
The chances of others reading the histories written by the losers is less common, but it does not mean those histories are not written.
Sometimes the loser is a hero of legend. They won a lot, but lost in tragedy. Their people dead...their cities gone. But their legend remains.
Their people lost. Some of them do not exist anymore. Yet we have their histories, written by themsleves as oppose to by their enemies. Histories written by the survivors of the losing party there were written before they vanished from history. Becoming tales told either by the victors, or by third parties that discovered these histories later. Some of these tales are only known because the losers wrote them down someplace to be discovered later. They still lost and they are all still quite dead.
Some could say that might have been the case for Saber in this series. In the end she lost everything. Her Kingdom, her peoples, practically her life. Yet her legend remains. Legends of the victors that became losers...still lost.
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