Description:
STORM OF STEEL is possibly the greatest combat memoir of the First World War of 1914-18. This is a new and first translation in American English (not British English) from the original German text by the famed novelist Ernst Jünger.
Brief description: Ernst Junger (1895-1998) was one of Germany's greatest novelists of the post-war era, not passing until age 102 in 1998. As a youth, he became a German war hero, but joined the plot against Hitler, and later became friends with the President of France, the former enemy. Mr. Junger renounced the wars of his youth, and became an advocate of peace and European unity.
Review Quotes:
"The greatest war memoir I have ever read. ... undoubtedly the most powerful memoir of any war. ... combines the most astonishing literary gifts with absorption with war in every detail. --THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER (Britain)
"[a] critical success ... a memorial to fallen comrades and an attempt to make sense of his war experiences ... revels in the glory of combat"--NEW YORK TIMES (USA)
"one of the greatest works about the First World War, along with those by Erich Maria Remarque, Henri Barbusse, e.e. cummings, David Jones and Lucien Descaves" --THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Britain)
"a surgically precise view of battle"--ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (Britain)