One of the great war memoirs, published here in a stunning Deluxe Edition for
the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme—and featuring a
foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn
A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of
Steel is a memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism. It
illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, as seen
through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier.
Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, Ernst Jünger exulted
in the Great War, which he saw not just as