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Great warrior indeed. Also sobering to the horrors of ww1. Direct, gritty, gripping and fascinating, this is an excellent account of a horrendous style of warfare.
Storm of steel is one of the best autobiographical accounts of the first world war. Every soldier has a story and it's important to know both side of a war. This book is a blanket overview of almost the entire war as seen through the eyes of a very fo... Read More
Storm of steel is an unflinching view of life in the trenches. It goes beyond the glorification of war, and represents an almost apolitical viewpoint into war. After a heavy rain everybody gets busy repairing trench sections that sunk in. At the end o... Read More
Gruesome in it's details, this autobiography is one to remember. The only negative thing i have to say about the book is that it is pretty repetitive after awhile.
Cons
The story is fantastic, but the translation is very clunky. It presents numerous mistakes such as sentence fragments, simple wrong word translations and choppy, unbalanced prose. This american-english translation is downright shameful.
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On the physical book itself you cant go wrong with the penguin classics deluxe editions of any of their books
The author demonstrates that quality of a superior combat officer who does the best to protect his men but understands and acce... Read More
He goes thru almost the whole war being wounded many times and talking about all the death and destruction around him with the ... Read More
Price
This book came in perfect condition and was a really good read at a pretty reasonable price
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A noholes barred view into the first world war
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Where such sangfroid came from is not clear but the absence of fear and a sort of fatalism made him a deadly warrior
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I would like to think that the original has a more natural cadence and use of vocabulary one would think so due to the prestige of the author
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This americanenglish translation is downright shameful
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It presents numerous mistakes such as sentence fragments simple wrong word translations and choppy unbalanced prose
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This work has been criticized as a glorification of war but i think that’s only true on a very superficial level
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Overall i took this as a cautionary tale
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A war is good and righteous or it’s not
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