Overview
Ernst Jünger's Fire and Blood (Feuer und Blut), published in 1925, delivers a concentrated blast of frontline reality. Emerging from the "Great Battle" chapter of In Storms of Steel, this fourth book amplifies the experience of combat to an unprecedented degree. It vividly recounts a single day during the Spring Offensive of 1918, as Jünger leads assault troops in Germany's last-ditch effort on the Western Front. Four times the length of its predecessor, Fire and Blood is a stylistic leap forward, offering far more detailed and visceral descriptions of the fighting. This is Jünger's stark and powerful vision of war distilled to its most intense and immediate form, capturing the brutal dynamism of the 1918 battlefield.
- | Author: K. J. Elliott
- | Publisher: Independently Published
- | Publication Date: Apr 09, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 110 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-13: 9798716956650
