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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

Storm of Steel Paperback | Pages: 289 pages

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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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Ernst Jünger is an insurance actuarys worst nightmare he smoked, drank, experimented with drugs, served in two world wars, sustained multiple injuries, and yet died only one month shy of 103. And his exploits on the front! You couldnt make this stuff up. I confess to not knowing many Germans, but the national stereotypes (organized, efficient, not a lot of laughs) were more than born out in his memoir.One of the things that struck me the most about the book was how different it was from British

Beautifully written. Junger has extraordinary gifts as a writer. The one thing that makes it harder to connect with his accounts was his cool detachment in his presentation of events and experiences. Beneath the surface is a bit of soft nationalism which is obnoxious but not completely blind or extreme, at least not as blind or extreme as one would expect from a French or German citizen/soldier who was constantly indoctrinated with this nationalistic state propaganda of the times. It really is

I'm very well aware of the dubious reputation of this book. Without doubt this is an impressive document about the First World War, seen through the eyes of a German soldier. All classic ingredients are incorporated: the enthusiasm at the start of the war, the horror of the combat scenes in the trenches, the 'Materialschlacht', etc. It's all there, described in a very chilling or maybe rather 'undercooled' way. But Jünger adds his own pigment: he stresses the formidable dynamics of mechanical

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

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

An oddly jaunty memoir of the Western Front, characterised by what Jünger describes somewhere as his strange mood of melancholy exultation. I am surprised so many people have found his prose clean, sparse, unemotional I thought the opposite, that it was rather over-literary in many places; not overwritten exactly, but with touches of a grand Romantic sensibility that I haven't found in English or French writers of the First World War:The white ball of a shrapnel shell melted far off, suffusing

This was fantastic. Ernst Junger was in WWI on the German side. His deadpan, factual account of what the war was like for him is riveting & horrific. He describes what trench warfare was like, the victories, defeats & deaths. He also describes the boredom, the terror & the conditions. Often times horrible conditions are described more by the thin assets of the situation, such as getting a pair of good, woolen socks from a captured bunker or being lucky enough to only pick up some