Storm of Steel

Brief Summary

Most war memoirs are filled with sorrow, regret, and the unbearable weight of loss. "Storm of Steel" is not one of them. Ernst Jünger, a young German officer in World War I, tells his story with an almost unsettling lack of sentimentality, describing the trenches as a proving ground for courage, discipline, and survival. Bullets tear through the air, men fall, and yet Jünger keeps moving forward, seemingly indifferent to death.