Storm Of Steel

Informationen zum Autor 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 is a poet and translator from the German. For Penguin he has translated four books by Hans Fallada, in addition to works by Franz Kafka, Ernst Jünger, Irmgard Keun and Jakob Wassermann. Klappentext Penguin modern classic of one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. A memoir of power and savagery illuminating the horrors and also the fascination of war. Translated and introduction by Michael Hofmann. Zusammenfassung A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism that illuminates the horrors as well as the fascination of total First World War, presenting the conflict through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. It provides an account of the terrors of the Western Front and of the sickening allure that made men keep fighting on for 4 long years.

Product details

• Authors: Ernst Jnger, Ernst Junger, Junger Ernst
• Assisted by: Michael Hofmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780141186917
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118691-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Pocket Penguins
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Germany, First World War, HISTORY / Military / World War I, Memoirs, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Classic fiction: general and literary