
Storm of Steel
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 4, 2004
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- Genres
- World War I History, Personal Memoirs, Military Lives
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, May 4, 2004
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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.
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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. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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- Book-club friction, not polite consensus
- A hard-edged war reading experience
Expect
- Steel-willed narration
- A history pick adjacent to Storm of Steel
Where it sits
| World War I History | 78% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 53% |
| Military Lives | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Military Lives
- Personal Memoirs
- World War I History
- Authors
- Ernst Junger, Michael Hofmann, Ernst Jünger
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- May 4, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Military Lives