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Storm of Steel is touted as this character-building transcendent work but it's boring as fuck. I'm halfway through the book and I have not encountered any intstructions on how to poise oneself and only hints into the inner life of soldiers. Very sober and restrained prose. I can see it's value as a historical document rather than literature.
What are your insights from this book? What am I missing?

>> No.12700896

>>12700856
>stormfag book sucks
shocker
>>>/pol/

>> No.12700926

>>12700856
Read the first edition, it's been revised and updated it for dubious reasons.
Junger is the ultimate soldier, he faced everything with good humour and saw the beauty in all things. Read his later books as well.

>> No.12700953

>>12700896
It's not a stormfag book, it's a memoir from the first world war

>> No.12701109

>>12700926
this, track down the creighton translation if you can as it's adapted from the 1921 edition

>> No.12701137

>>12700856
>experiences the pointless bloodshed of ww1
>most soldiers come home as broken messes with various levels of ptsd
>Jünger comes home thinking that war is awesome for building character and everyone should experience it

Was he a sociopath?

>> No.12701155

>>12700926
I have the final revised edition as pictured in the OP. What are the passages that have been revised and how is the final version different from the first?
>>12701137
I'd like to know too. He does not provide instructions, leaves no clues to how he did it. He appropriated the style of an observer.

>> No.12701164

>>12701155
You've just said it yourself: by adopting the style of an observer.

>> No.12701221

>>12700896
>t. brainlet

>> No.12701325

Why did you think it was supposed to provide instructions? I never thought that that was his goal at all, Jünger didn't want to write some "THE ART OF MANLINESS" self-help shit, it was his own account of the war and it was extremely successful at being one.
Also, this shit about the revisions censoring him is autism. From what I understand he edited it himself for various reasons over a long period of time. Every /pol/ack I've seen discuss the book seems to think he was a secret Nazi and that the deleted sections were about hating Jews and wanting to conquer Europe.

>> No.12701365

He actually edited the book (reduced the nationalistic aspect) because he didn't want the nazis using it for propaganda. Junger was a nationalist and had other ideas in common with the nazis, but he was opposed to them.

>> No.12701372
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12701372

>>12700953
>>12701221
>>>/pol/

>> No.12701394

>>12701137
>most soldiers come home as broken messes with various levels of ptsd
are there actually people with an IQ above 80 who believe this?

>> No.12701818

>>12701137
>Was he a sociopath?
No. You missed the several instances in the book where he laments the bloodshed and the destruction. He just doesn't focus on that like nearly every other memoir.

>> No.12701828

>>12700856
Guy Sajers Forgotten Soldier is a better book. Although its ww2

Read books from journalists of ww1 like philip gibs imo

Storm of steel is a kinda boring memoir/autobiography

>> No.12701832

>>12700856
It is hopeless to read it for instructions. But calling the prose sober and restrained is ridiculous, especially when Junger talks about the various random and unforeseen ways that people could die, such as getting struck by a stray splinter while watching a dogfight, or when he talks about what transpires when the adrenaline kicks in, like when he rips a gun out of a paralyzed officer and shoots several advancing British soldiers dead in their tracks. To think that one cannot get some sort of inspiration and wisdom out of this book is folly. The amount of courage and intelligence that Junger displayed at that age can make any young adult feel the need to up their own game, because you have a tenth of the poise that Junger did, then you shouldn't have any problems dealing with the challenges of modern society today.

Also, if you're looking for /pol/tard shit in this book, then you'll be disappointed too. No revision will fix that for you. It's still a riveting, insightful, and at times, brutally difficult read.