Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger [PENGUIN CLASSICS PAPERBACK] 2004

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

TRADE PAPERBACK [2004] PENGUIN CLASSICS

Penguin classics Black Label edition.  

Book is in excellent condition w/ only very light wear. 

The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1

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.