![]() ![]() Seebald, perceptively described Jünger as a writer ’who had emerged from the Hitler era, which he had helped to usher in, as a distinguished isolationist and defender of humanistic values'. By his death in 1998, at 102, he had been overloaded with literary honours and praised as a quiet but defiant opponent of Hitler. Storm of Steel has been universally praised as an important work of literature and yet condemned as the personification militarism, its author both prototypical Nazi and writer of rare ability. While many have found Jünger's philosophy disturbing, few have doubted the power or the skill of his writing. ![]() It was a book dubbed by military historian Cyril Falls, a book of ’extraordinary zest and power’, adding, ’One feels that Jünger is a danger to society, but one cannot resist liking him or admiring him’. ISBN 0 71399 594 7.Īlthough Basil Creighton's 1929 translation of Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel has been frequently republished, this 1993 Penguin offers the first new English version of the text since its original English publication over seventy years ago. Translated by Michael Hofmann, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2003, £ 14.99, 289pp. ![]()
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