The Storm of Steel

First published in 1920, this memoir follows Ernst Junger as a German infantry officer on the Western Front from 1915 through the 1918 offensives. He records trench routine, raids, bombardments, and the assaults around the Somme, Arras, and Cambrai, writing as a participant who treats combat as a test of nerve and craft. Comrades, replacements, and the landscape of smashed villages form the setting. The book is a front-line war diary recast as narrative, not a staff history of strategy and not a novel of civilian life.

Bound in grey cloth with a black image cover design. Black slipcase.