In steel storms | Ernst Junger

One of the most famous books about the First World War. From the diary of a strike group commander, this book takes the reader right to the front of the war. The form of a diary allows you to authentically convey the impressions and experience of combat operations. The notes are regular, precise and fragmentary, but they form an incredible war mosaic that is striking in its truthfulness and persuasiveness. This book became a bestseller and is deservedly recognized as one of the most important testimonies about the First World War.

"Jünger's In Steel Storms precedes the most famous German anti-war work, Erich Maria Remarque's novel On the Western Front Unchanged (1928/29). For its author, this book was a model, and in an article published in 1928 he praised it for , that she showed the war experience "without any pathos" and with "proper objectivity": "exactly, seriously, strongly and with increasing tension, until the harsh face of war, the horror of material battle and the immeasurable , the all-absorbing power of the heart.” Today, Remarque would have phrased it differently, but what he expressed then remains the same today: insightful and merciless, at the same time full of suffering and frivolous, as shocking as the depiction of war should be. to be recognized as a literary achievement and documentation of an epochal disposition and experience, even if the war is treated with disgust."
Helmut Kiesel