/lit/ - Literature

From all the hype I was expecting some transcendent overpowering aesthetic experience but it’s just a monotonous tactical war diary with occasional moments of inspiration

Books on war without the "war bad, peace good" trite

Why is this book rated so highly? It glorifies war to such an extent that it was even used as a medium for propaganda during the Third Reich by the Nazis.

Storm of Steel, obviously.

You're not getting this thread off to a good start.

What are the best war books /lit =

>>8960635
pic related gets me hard as nails

Reading it now. Better than All Quiet on the Western Front.

Dry as fuck actually, I don't know what I expected but 100 pages in I feel it's going to be hard to finish.

I've started to read Storm of Steel and I expected a dark, gritty apology of mechanical war. Junger sure isn't a pacifist and there are some terryfying moments, but it's not as over the top as I expected. The tone is melancholic and somewhat cold, but there are also some hilarious moments, like when he fiddled with an object found in a French trench to realise that it's a hand grenade or that one drunk guy who threw his captain into a cowshed instead of escorting him to his billet. It's funny how Junger miraculously avoid death everytime, it's more entertaining than I expected to be.

>>6020295
ayyy lmao