In Stahlgewittern

Name: In Stahlgewittern
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ISBN: 9780142437902

ISBN-10: 0142437905

ISBN-13: 9780142437902

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ernst Junger, Michael Hofmann, Ernst Junger, Ernst Junger

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A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steelilluminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, Jnger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict butmore importantlyas a unique personal struggle. Leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart, Jnger kept testing himself, braced for the death that will mark his failure. Published shortly after the wars end, Storm of Steelwas a worldwide bestseller and can now be…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/4/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.75" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Michael Hofmann won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Roth's The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth.



Introduction


Bibliography


In the Chalk Trenches of Champagne


From Bazancourt to Hattonchatel


Les Eparges


Douchy and Monchy


Daily Life in the Trenches


The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme


Guillemont


The Woods of St-Pierre-Vaast


Retreat from the Somme


In the Village of Fresnoy


Against Indian Opposition


Langemarck


Regnieville


Flanders Again


The Double Battle of Cambrai


At the Cojeul River


The Great Battle


British Gains


My Last Assault


We Fight Our Way Through