description: Ernst Junger served in the German front line, fighting both the British and the French for most of World War I. Young, tough, patriotic but also disturbingly self-aware, he exulted in the war, which he saw not just as a great national struggle 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, Junger kept testing himself, braced for the death that would 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 translation.
language: English
title: Storm of Steel
titlecomplete: Storm of Steel
characters: Ernst Jünger
genres: Military Fiction, World War I, War, Nonfiction, History, Germany, Classics, Memoir, German Literature, Biography
ratings_count: 16622
places: Arras, Champagne-Ardenne, Western Front, World War I (WW I), Ieper, Les Éparges, Belgium, Cambrai, Combles, France
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize
publisher: Allen Lane