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25%OFFErnst Junger - Storm of Steel - 9780141186917 - 9780141186917
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Storm of Steel

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Description for Storm of Steel Paperback. A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism that illuminates the horrors as well as the fascination of total First World War, presenting the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. It provides an account of the terrors of the Western Front and of the sickening allure that made men keep fighting on for 4 long years. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.

'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest.'

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Jünger's experience of combat on the front line - leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, and simply enduring as shells tore his comrades ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141186917
SKU
9780141186917
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99-1

About Ernst Junger
Ernst Junger (Author) Ernst Jünger, the son of a wealthy chemist, ran away from home to join the Foreign Legion. His father dragged him back, but he returned to military service when he joined the German army on the outbreak of the First World War. Storm of Steel was Jünger's first book, published in 1920. Jünger died in ... Read more

Reviews for Storm of Steel
Undoubtedly the most powerful memoir of any war I have ever read ... Storm of Steel combines the most astonishing literary gifts with absorption with war in every detail. It has German loyalties and a German sensibility, but not a trace of propaganda. It is particular, yet universal ... What Jünger saw and recorded was, to use his own word, ... Read more

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