Book HackStorm of Steel By Ernst Jünger, Michael Hofmann
In a Nutshell
This memoir from Ernst Jünger, a German officer during World War I, is a moving account of trench warfare on the Western Front that honestly describes war in all its brutality and madness.
Favorite Quote
At the sight of the Neckar slopes wreathed with flowering cherry trees, I had a strong sense of having come home. What a beautiful country it was, and eminently worth our blood and our lives.
Ernst Jünger
Introduction
Ernst Jünger's account of life in the trenches during World War I was one of the first to be published, and one of the only to be entirely absorbed in the experience of soldiers rather than the war's wider political context.
In Storm of Steel, Jünger makes no appeal to pacifism nor offers historical or strategic analysis, but simply lays out what he saw, heard, and felt.
Jünger volunteered at 19, shortly after the start of the war in August 1914. He was soon transported to the Western Front in Champagne.
Jünger's memoir is based on his diaries and was revised numerous times over his long and highly-decorated literary career.
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