The memoir "Along the Front" by the American writer and publicist John Reed, sent as a war correspondent to the Balkans and Russia in 1915, is the result of a trip to the eastern edge of warring Europe during the First World War. The trip was supposed to last three months, but dragged on for more than six months: after visiting Lvov (Lemberg), the author found himself in the “great Russian retreat.” The book is interesting not only for its brilliant, truthful sketches of the gloomy and peculiar “front-line life”; it clearly senses the development of the author’s complacent pacifism into a passionate, principled protest against the imperialist nature of the war.