The WWI Diary of Ernst Jünger: Newly Published Memoir Recalls Horror of Western Front - Nov 27, 2010 - 11:12 am

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One of the most graphic accounts of World War I the diary of German author Ernst Jünger has been published for the first time. Its dispassionate description of life and death on the Western Front is a cold indictment of war -- even though Jünger embraced the conflict throughout as a glorious test of manhood.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0151872667200.html

Last Edited: Nov 27, 2010 - 11:27 am

Mehar Gill

'Great test of manhood': Bloodthirsty World War I diaries of German soldier celebrate fighting on the Western Front - Nov 27, 2010 - 11:26 am

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The extraordinarily bloodthirsty war diaries of German soldier and later celebrated writer Ernst Jünger have been published for the first time. Unlike many of his contemporaries he saw the war not as a tragedy but a 'great test of manhood'. He writes with evident pride about having killed a British soldier with 'a clean head shot.' and describes with relish how in 1918 he led a group of shock troops towards British machine gun positions

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333396/Recently-rediscovered-diary-WW1-German-soldier-tells-grim-tale-life-death-Western-Front.html

Mehar Gill