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Storm of steel

Provides a memoir of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier who viewed the war as a personal struggle, testing himself by leading raiding parties and enduring as his comrades were killed.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jünger, Ernst, 1895-1998
Other Authors:	Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
Series:	Penguin classics
Subjects:	Jünger, Ernst, > 1895-1998. World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, German. Soldiers > Germany > Diaries.
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Summary:	Provides a memoir of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier who viewed the war as a personal struggle, testing himself by leading raiding parties and enduring as his comrades were killed.
Physical Description:	xxiv, 289 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxiv).
ISBN:	0142437905 9780142437902
Author Notes:	Junger published his war diary, The Storm of Steel, in 1920 at the age of 25. The recipient of the Pour le Merite, Germany's highest award for bravery in the field, Junger was lionized by his generation for his celebration of the "purifying" experience of war. His "heroic nihilism" was further articulated in his War as a Spiritual Experience (Der Kampf als Innerer Erlebnis), published in 1922. His allegorical On the Marble Cliffs (1939) is sometimes seen as an attack on Nazism. Nonetheless, Junger served as an officer in the Reichswehr in Paris during World War II. Since the war he has become involved in the conservation movement, making the defense of nature the subject of his later writing. He remains primarily known for his early works, and his romanticization and aestheticizing of war now elicit much criticism. His recent receipt of a prestigious literary prize was the subject of considerable controversy. (Bowker Author Biography)