by Ernst Jünger · Constable · tapa dura · ISBN 9780094739000
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«The Storm of Steel» is Ernst Jünger's memoir of the First World War, published by Constable in hardback (320 pages, in English).
Ernst Jünger, an officer in the German storm troops, fought on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. He recounts attacks, trench defence and the physical and moral exhaustion of soldiers, showing the war from the German side without hiding its harshness.
New 1994 edition with an introduction by Paddy Griffith and an English translation of the German original «In Stahlgewittern».
For readers of military history and First World War memoirs interested in the German perspective.
Ernst Jünger was a German author, soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. A prolific writer of over forty books, Jünger wrote particularly in the furtherance of conservatism and against what he perceived as the spiritual oppression of man.
