In Stahlgewittern

"Storms of Steel” is an evocative memoir, honest, forthright, often ironically distant, that shows not only the primal cruelty of war, but an awe of it - all through the eyes of an ordinary soldier. Ernst Junger - then young, patriotic, observant and suicidally brave - sees war not only as a national conflict but also as a personal struggle. Wounded seven times, leading countless charges through enemy trenches as an officer, seeing many of his men torn apart by shells or mowed down by bullets, Junger returned to “Storms of Steel” throughout his long life. It's a book we won't stop returning to either.