Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger6/29/2023 Based on his diary of the time, the book covers Jünger’s experience from recruitment in 1914 through to the allied offensive in the Spring of 1918 and Germany’s ultimate defeat. ‘That was the last of them!’ ‘Let’s go!’.”įirst published in its original German in 1920 Ernst Jünger’s In Stahlgewittern, Storm of Steel, is surely the best account of trench warfare along the western front in the First World War. Hands darted to release the pins on bombs. ‘Boom!’ ‘Good God!’ ‘A light, a light! ‘Get everything ready.’ Everyone’s hearts were in their mouths. Blue smoke streamed in through the entrances, and earth crumbled off the ceiling. We stood fully armed on the shelter steps, while the light of our little candle stumps reflected glitteringly off the wet, mildewed walls. A hail of heavy shells struck all round my dugout. In particular, one concentration of fire at quarter past two outdid anything there had been up to that point. “The night was still wilder than the last.
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