The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front

“Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.” —Ernst Jünger, The Storm of Steel, 1929

Ernst Jünger, German author of one of the most famous books on World War I, The Storm of Steel—From the Diary of a German...