Sunday, November 7, 2010

Newly Published Memoir Recalls Horror of Western Front

[Spiegel]    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.  More...