Ernst Jünger - Foreword to the 1920 edition of "The Storm of Steel."
With the war barely more than a year in the rearview, Jünger wrote this introduction to “In Stahlgewittern.” Brimming with patriotic conviction and a desire to memorialize the deeds of those soldiers who had given their lives on the battlefield for Germany - this introduction captures a younger, more fiery side of Ernst, one that becomes much more mute…
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