Sven Hedin visited the German armies on the western front in the autumn of 1914, and recounted his impressions in the Swedish book Från fronten i väster (1915). This English translation was published the same year. Sweden was neutral during the war, but Sven Hedin was not. He is full of admiration for the apparently victorious German forces. The English publisher felt a need to add a note at the beginning of the book.
The book was digitized in June 2008 at the University of California
libraries by the Internet Archive, from where the scanned images and
OCR text in January 2024 were copied to Project Runeberg. The page
images were dark and we made them brighter (adjusted white balance).
This volume was scanned elsewhere and made available by the Internet Archive,
from where the scanned images were copied to Project Runeberg.
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