You know that this is your place in the battle, and that a whole people relies on you to do your job. “here is someone within you who keeps you to your post by the power of two mighty spells: Duty and Honor. Indeed, throughout the book, one gets a sense of him as a strongly patriotic German, who fought bravely for his country: And he wasn’t necessarily against it, either. But it succeeds in conveying one important truth about World War I: it was insane. The best executive summary I ever heard was, “Because a Serbian shot an Austrian, Germany invaded France.” Maybe I should start by briefly describing World War I. The Storm of Steel tells of his service in World War I in the 73rd Hanover Regiment. Who am I to say how Jünger should have lived it?īecause the way he lived it is simply astounding.
I can’t claim “I didn’t like this” or “The author should have done that.” It’s his life. I hadn’t planned to review it, but my friend Joy Spicer asked me about it, and so, well, how could I not? By the way, Joy has also written a review of a different translation, which you should definitely read.īut there’s a reason I don’t often review memoirs. I mentioned I had read this book in my review of Jünger’s novella On The Marble Cliffs.
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