Storm of Steel
$25.32
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2004
Summary
Storm of Steel: A Memoir of the Great War
To read this extraordinary book is to gain a unique insight into the compelling nature of organized, industrialized violence. Michael Hofmann’s superlative translation retains all the coruscating vitality of the original.
‘As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest …’
Storm of Steel is one of the greatest…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141186917 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141186917 |
| Author: | Ernst Junger, Michael Hofmann |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2004 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 154mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Undoubtedly the most powerful memoir of any war I have ever read … Storm of Steel combines the most astonishing literary gifts with absorption with war in every detail. It has German loyalties and a German sensibility, but not a trace of propaganda. It is particular, yet universal … What Jünger saw and recorded was, to use his own word, ‘primordial’. It takes great art to convey that appalling simplicity – Charles Moore * Telegraph *Storm of Steel is what so many books claim to be but are not: a classic account of war * Evening Standard *Hofmann’s interpretation is superb * The Times *Unique in the literature of this or any other war is its brilliantly vivid conjuration of the immediacy and intensity of battle * Telegraph *
About The Author
Ernst Junger
Ernst Junger (Author)
Ernst Jünger, the son of a wealthy chemist, ran away from home to join the Foreign Legion. His father dragged him back, but he returned to military service when he joined the German army on the outbreak of the First World War. Storm of Steel was Jünger’s first book, published in 1920. Jünger died in 1998.
Michael Hofmann (Translator)
Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. He has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann.
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