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Storm of Steel

by Ernst Jünger

Penguin Classics. 2004. 320p. tr. from German by Michael Hofmann. ISBN 9780142437902. pap. $17.

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An important book for libraries to carry, this is the memoir of a young German soldier in the Great War. Though it is unfairly criticized for "glorifying war," the book maintains that war is an ultimate experience of sorts and one that makes its participants become something extremely human.

Reviewed by Benjamin Brudner , Jan 01, 2016

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