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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
As I have been publicly criticized for undertaking the
issue of the English edition of this book, for the most
part by people who have not read it, I am taking
the somewhat unusual course of giving a brief explanation of
my point of view.
In the first place, Dr. Sven Hedin’s book is essentially a
record of facts as he saw them. He is a trained observer, and
there can be no question of his veracity. Hitherto, for facts
with regard to the German Armies and their organisation we
have had to rely on such accounts as the German official
communiques chose to give us, which nobody believes; or,
as an alternative, on the accounts published in our own press,
which, owing to the strictness of the censorship, were mostly
gathered from accounts furnished by prisoners or our own
soldiers. The prisoners were naturally pessimistic and our
men optimistic. Hence the general impression formed has
been that the German organisation had gone to pieces, that
their troops were short of food and clothes and that their
ammunition was poor.
How far this is from the truth these pages will show, and it is
surely desirable to publish a book that for the first time gives
us a comprehensive idea of the wonderful organisation against
which we are fighting. To my mind it is one of the things
chiefly needed to stimulate both our workers and our
recruiting.
Again, is it not well to let the English nation know, for
instance, that those 600,000 troops which our gallant 120,000
successfully withstood at Ypres were not ill-clad, ill-fed levies,
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