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Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

Paperback | Pages: 289 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 9121 Users | 720 Reviews

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Title	:	Storm of Steel
Author	:	Ernst Jünger
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Modern Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 289 pages
Published	:	June 3rd 2004 by Penguin Books (first published 1920)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. War. Biography. World War I. Autobiography. Memoir

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A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, 'Storm of Steel' illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier.

Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, Jünger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict, but more importantly as a unique personal struggle.

Leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart, Jünger kept testing himself, braced for the death that will mark his failure.

Published shortly after the war's end, 'Storm of Steel' was a worldwide bestseller and can now be rediscovered through Michael Hofmann's brilliant new translation.

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Original Title:	In Stahlgewittern
ISBN:	0141186917 (ISBN13: 9780141186917)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ernst Jünger
Setting:	Ieper,1917(Belgium) Champagne,1915(France) Les Éparges,1915(France) …more Arras,1916(France) Combles,1916(France) Cambrai,1917(France) World War I (WW I) Western Front …less
Literary Awards:	Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (2004)

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Unsettling memoire from a German officer who fought throughout the first world war. He took thirteen wounds and survived, having fought in many of the key battles on the western front. The book gives a sense of what the war was like, full of monotony, terror, comradeship and blood and guts.A touch vain glorious for my taste, and the author shows little sense of regret. Very matter of fact about death and destruction. I suspect that one becomes inured to death if one faces it every day.

War means the destruction of the enemy without scruple and by any means. War is the harshest of all trades, and the masters of it can only entertain humane feelings so long as they do no harm. Ernst Jünger was a born soldier: neither risk-averse nor foolhardy, able to command the loyalty of others and to follow orders without question, able to fight without malice and kill without scruple. These are his captivating memoirs of his service in the First World War.The consensus of posterity

This is an excellent and unusual World War I novel.* It's unusual in that most WWI fiction and memoires are anti-war, dark and furious at the appalling human waste.** Ernst Jünger, in contrast, had a grand time. Well, that's a bit flip. Storm of Steel is full of savagery, physical suffering, squalor, and an ultimate sense of frustration. But the narrator also exults in war. He delights in daredevil acts, charging the enemy, organizing his troops, and appreciating details of life in the rear.

This is an account of one German soldier's experience in World War I. He was wounded at least 11 times, patched up and sent back to the front. Not very interesting, eh? Junger was an extraordinary observer who kept a diary from the first day of the war to its conclusion. His was the first such soldier's account to be published after the war. From that diary he gave us enormous insight. The prose is so much better than one might expect - even his occasional quoting of that diary.The stream poured



I dont think Ive read a memoir of WW1 written by a German. It was therefore interesting, to say the very least. It is extremely well written. He is intelligent, well read a very fine warrior and leader of men at such a young age.The pages are heaped with carnage which starts to numb after a while. Each side respects the others prowess which does not dilute the hatred needed to fuel the fight but there is generally a shared code of honour between them. Each side indulges in the dirtiness of

Ernst Junger's memoir of his time on the Western Front (1914-1918) is a powerful glimpse at what it's like to be a soldier, made all the more powerful because it's unadorned with philosophical introspection or politics. The reader joins Junger as he joins his unit in Champagne and leaves him during his final convalescence in a Hanover hospital. In between, we vicariously experience the daily life of a German officer and his men - and "vicarious" is about as close as any rational person would