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A review by bundy23
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
4.0
Very gentlemanly tales of the absolute horrors of the Germans trenches of WWI.
At first I struggled a little with the upper-class voice/language of Jünger (although it may have been the translation). It opened a bit distant and dispassionate but the further the book goes, the more immersed he seems to get, but I guess being shot or injured 14 times will get your juices flowing.
I did find the final few pages a little concerning as not only is this not anti-war like pretty much all the other soldier memoirs that I've ever read but instead Jünger talks up the joy and happiness that he got fighting from the motherland. Sadly I can definitely see this being on a lot of neo-nazi bookshelfs.
At first I struggled a little with the upper-class voice/language of Jünger (although it may have been the translation). It opened a bit distant and dispassionate but the further the book goes, the more immersed he seems to get, but I guess being shot or injured 14 times will get your juices flowing.
I did find the final few pages a little concerning as not only is this not anti-war like pretty much all the other soldier memoirs that I've ever read but instead Jünger talks up the joy and happiness that he got fighting from the motherland. Sadly I can definitely see this being on a lot of neo-nazi bookshelfs.