In 1916, with the Battle of the Somme underway, Jünger's regiment moved to Combles in August for the defence of the village of Guillemont. He rejoined his regiment on the Arras sector. His first taste of combat came at Les Éparges in April 1915 where he was first wounded.Īfter recuperating, he took an officer's course and achieved the rank of Leutnant. Storm of Steel begins with Jünger as a private entering the line with the 73rd Hanoverian Regiment in Champagne. It can be read affirmatively, neutrally or as an anti-war book. The judgment of contemporaries and later critics reflects the ambivalence of the work, which describes the war in all its brutality, but neither expressly condemns it nor goes into its political causes. The book established Jünger's fame as a writer in the 1920s. It was largely devoid of editorialization when first published, but was heavily revised several times. The book is a graphic account of trench warfare. It was originally printed privately in 1920, making it one of the first personal accounts to be published. Storm of Steel ( German: In Stahlgewittern, lit.'In Steel Thunderstorms' original English title: In Storms of Steel) is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War from December 1914 to August 1918.
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