Storm of Steel

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Storm of Steel (German: In Stahlgewittern; original English title: In Storms of Steel) is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War from December 1914 to August 1918. The book is a graphic account of trench warfare and is often seen as either morally ambivalent or actually pro-war. Storm of Steel was originally printed privately in 1920, making it one of the first personal accounts to be published. It was largely devoid of editorialization when first published, but was heavily revised several times. The book established Jünger's fame as a writer in the 1920s. As noted by German-British poet and translator Michael Hofmann, who published an English translation of the text in 2004, this book is, after Henri Barbusse's 1916 Under Fire, one of the very first literary accounts of The Great War.

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