/lit/ - Literature

>>8675444
As for Germany, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is broadly accurate in the situation facing Germany after WW1, and the intervening war years. Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke's "The Occult Roots of Nazism" trace the spiritual side of National Socialism from its roots in Austria c. 1880-1890 all the way through to the 1940s. If you want to find out about the Spanish Fascists, just google Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Anthology, and it should be one of the first you get. For a background on Spain before the Civil War, which includes a few lengthy chapters on the failures of the Republics reforms, there's Hugh Thomas' "Spanish Civil War".

>>8661181
I think the rejection of liberty, security, ease, and comfort have more to do with his being from a heavily militaristic society. However, it wasn't an unpopular view that war was seen as a good thing. Plenty of other people really did believe the same thing as Junger: that war, with all of its sacrifice and pain forged the best men. Mostly though, I think Junger appreciated the camaraderie and bonds that could be created by soldiers who were going through the war together. And at least at that point in his life, he probably viewed the liberty, freedom, and those ideals as being incompatible with the militarism and soldierly lifestyle that was needed to create those bonds.

If anything, I'd say that much of Storm of Steel's focus is on how well the German soldiers were able to maintain that sense of brotherhood and common purpose in spite of the situation they found themselves in.