MODERN CLASSICS STORM OF STEELE

A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Jünger’s experience of combat in the German front line – leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, and simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart. One of the greatest books to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War, it illuminates like no other book not only the horrors but also the fascination of a war that made men keep fighting on for four long years.

A new translation by Michael Hofmann

‘Sublime … Precise, economical, taut, interspersed with earthy humour and reflections, often uncanny, that linger in the memory’ 
Daniel Johnson, Daily Telegraph

‘A fascinating counterpart to Graves and Sassoon … Ernst Jünger is unarguably an original’ 
Tibor Fischer, Sunday Telegraph

‘Extraordinary … a unique insight into the compelling nature of organized, industrialized violence. Michael Hofmann’s superlative translation retains all the coruscating vitality of the original’ 
Niall Ferguson

‘Outstanding … a blueprint for surviving, at least in a spiritual sense, the madness of war in a mechanized age … Hofmann’s interpretation is superb’ 
Paul Watkins, The Times

‘A lyrical evocation of machine-age battle’ 
Max Egremont, Literary Review