If you enjoyed Storm of Steel, you might like Edward Blunden's Undertones of War, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Greatly admired by the Nazis, Jünger remained at a distance from the regime, with books such as his allegorical work On the Marble Cliffs (1939) functioning as a covert criticism of Nazi ideology and methods. Storm of Steel ( Stahlgewittern) was Jünger's first book, published in 1920. 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. One of the greatest books to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War, it illuminates like no other book not only the horrors but also the fascination of a war that made men keep fighting for four long years.Įrnst Jünger (1895-1998) the son of a wealthy chemist, ran away from home to join the Foreign Legion.
They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest.'Ī 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 apart.
'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. Fighting throughout the war, he recorded his experiences in several books, most famously in In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel). He ran away from school and volunteered to join the German army. 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. Ernst Jünger (18951998) was born in Heidelberg.
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