![]() All sorts of trustworthy and unlikely people - and trustworthy often precisely because unlikely: cosmopolites, left-wingers, noncombatants - have stepped up to express their admiration, often in suitably embarrassed or bemused fashion: Boll and Borges, Enzensberger and Brecht, Gide and Moravia. Introduction Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern is the original title) is one of the great books of World War I, if not the greatest. In the Village of Fresnoy Against Indian Opposition Langemarck Regnieville Flanders Again The Double Battle of Cambrai At the Cojeul River The Great Battle British Gains My Last Assault We Fight Our Way Through Your support of the author's rights is appreciated.Ĭontents Introduction Bibliography Storm of Steel In the Chalk Trenches of Champagne From Bazancourt to Hattonchatel Les Eparges Douchy and Monchy Daily Life in the Trenches The Beginning of the Battle of the Somme Guillemont The Woods of St-Pierre-Vaast Retreat from the Somme -8. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. D640.J69313 2004 940.4'144'092-dc22 2004044331 Printed in the United States of America Set in Sabon Times -6-Įxcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. World War, 1914-1918 - Personal narratives, German. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Junger, Ernst, 1895-1998 Storm of Steel / Ernst Junger translated by Michael Hoffman p. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger GmbH, Stuttgart Introduction and translation copyright © Michael Hofmann, 2003 All rights reserved ![]() Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1978 This translation first published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Pengin Books 2003 Published in Penguin Books 2004 13Copyright © 1920, 1961 J. This translation made from the edition prepared from the Saemtliche Werke, vol. Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Books (HZ.) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England In Stahlgewitten first published in german 1920 This final revised edition first published 1961 -4. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. To request Penguin Readers Guides by mail (while supplies last), please call (800) 778-6425 or e-mail To access Penguin Readers Guides online, visit our Web site at -3. ![]() He also coedited, with James Ladun, After Ovid. His own books include Corona, Corona and Behind the Lines. Michael Hofmann has translated Joseph Roth, Herta Muller, Zoe Jenny, Wim Wenders, Wolfgang Koeppen, and Franz Kafka. His most famous later books include Heliopolis (1949), The Glass Bees (1957), Eumeswil (1977), Aladdin's Problem (1983), and A Dangerous Encounter (1985). Throughout the Nazi period he was a controversial “inner emigrant,” distanced from the regime yet only obliquely in opposition. ![]() While admired by the Nazis, he remained critical of them and through novels such as On the Marble Cliffs (1939) sought to understand the impasse into which Germany was heading. He fought throughout the war and recorded his experiences in several books, most famously in In Stahlgewittern (Storm of Steel). He ran away from school to enlist in the Foreign Legion and in 1914 volunteered to join the German army. ![]() PENGUIN CLASSICS STORM OF STEEL Ernst Junger was born in Heidelberg in 1895. Storm of Steel Translated with an Introduction by MICHAEL HOFMANN Version 1.1 ![]()
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