Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Storm of Steel: Ernst Junger

First there should be an umlat on Junger.

This book is about a German Soldier (Junger) who fought through World War One, and kept a very detailed journal about it. He fought in numerous of the famous battles throughout the war and wrote about the hardships and evils caused by war. What I love so much about this book is how simplistically Junger writes about war. He has just enough details in the writing that you can picture it in your head, yet the wording is so simplistic that a 12 year old could read it all (maybe not understand it), but I didn't have to find a dictionary to understand what they meant. I highly recommend it for anyone.

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