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Diario di guerra 1914-1918

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Un joven de 19 años marcha al frente de la Primera Guerra Mundial movido por la sed de aventuras. Pronto encontrará el infierno: compañeros desventrados, poblaciones arrasadas, una maquinaria de devastación. Toda vida puede quebrarse en cualquier momento. Efectivamente, tras unos meses de instrucción militar, el jovencísimo Jünger, soldado voluntario, cruzó la frontera de Luxemburgo y entró en combate. Desde entonces, y casi a diario, relató en sus cuadernos su participación en una contienda que diezmó a una generación entera. Jünger trata de observar lo que le rodea con la fría curiosidad de un entomólogo, pero no tardan en surgir sentimientos.

642 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

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Ernst Jünger

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Ernst Jünger was a decorated German soldier and author who became famous for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an affluent upbringing and sought adventure in the Wandervogel, before running away to briefly serve in the French Foreign Legion, an illegal act. Because he escaped prosecution in Germany due to his father's efforts, Junger was able to enlist on the outbreak of war. A fearless leader who admired bravery above all else, he enthusiastically participated in actions in which his units were sometimes virtually annihilated. During an ill-fated German offensive in 1918 Junger's WW1 career ended with the last and most serious of his many woundings, and he was awarded the Pour le Mérite, a rare decoration for one of his rank.

Junger served in World War II as captain in the German Army. Assigned to an administrative position in Paris, he socialized with prominent artists of the day such as Picasso and Jean Cocteau. His early time in France is described in his diary Gärten und Straßen (1942, Gardens and Streets). He was also in charge of executing younger German soldiers who had deserted. In his book Un Allemand à Paris , the writer Gerhard Heller states that he had been interested in learning how a person reacts to death under such circumstances and had a morbid fascination for the subject.

Jünger appears on the fringes of the Stauffenberg bomb plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (July 20, 1944). He was clearly an inspiration to anti-Nazi conservatives in the German Army, and while in Paris he was close to the old, mostly Prussian, officers who carried out the assassination attempt against Hitler. He was only peripherally involved in the events however, and in the aftermath suffered only dismissal from the army in the summer of 1944, rather than execution.

In the aftermath of WW2 he was treated with some suspicion as a closet Nazi. By the latter stages of the Cold War his unorthodox writings about the impact of materialism in modern society were widely seen as conservative rather than radical nationalist, and his philosophical works came to be highly regarded in mainstream German circles. Junger ended his extremely long life as a honoured establishment figure, although critics continued to charge him with the glorification of war as a transcending experience.

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Profile Image for Walter Mendoza.
30 reviews24 followers
May 17, 2016
An very young author, on the german army in the WWI, wrote every day on his notebook the events on the battle camp what he lived. Devastated villages, unrecognizable bodily remains, the life in the trenches, miseries, mud, rain, meager rations.

One of the most graphic accounts of WWI, I recommend this book.
Profile Image for Sergio Pascual.
101 reviews5 followers
March 23, 2021
Como su nombre indica, es un diario del soldado alemán Ernst Junger escrito durante la Gran Guerra (I Guerra Mundial), prácticamente día tras día entre 1914 y 1918. Nos cuenta sus pensamientos y sus vivencias en las trincheras y fuera de ellas. Y nos da una idea de las monstruosidades que acontecen durante una guerra.

Un libro de enorme valor para la historia de la humanidad.
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50 reviews
November 20, 2024
3.5
Los diarios buscan describir, de la forma más objetiva posible, lo que sucede en la guerra, por lo que no hay tantas reflexiones personales del autor. Eso quizás hizo que se me hiciera un poco "pesado" de leer y me llevó su tiempo porque a veces perdía el interés. Igualmente, destaco que la edición está muy buena y completa. Tiene muchísimas notas y textos que complementan y ayudan a entender mejor el contexto de algunas notas
Profile Image for Andrés Canta Izaguirre.
16 reviews2 followers
May 13, 2018
Crudísima descripción de los campos de batalla de la Primera Guerra Mundial. El libro tiene un valor testimonial tremendo pero como todo diario personal se vuelve confuso y repetitivo por momentos. Es muy importante consultar los comentarios que figuran al final, los cuales aclaran muchas situaciones cuyo significado se perdería en gran parte de leer sólo el original.
595 reviews1 follower
November 9, 2025
aunque fue un relato frío hay que leerlo muy bien para ver la crónica de la guerra y los daños que lo dejo a el
Profile Image for Natxo Cruz.
643 reviews
October 28, 2014
Apte només per a estudiosos de la primera guerra mundial o de la figura de Jünger. Pot ser també útil per complementar un assaig sobre el conflicte o per entendre la gènesi, per exemple, de "Sin novedad en el frente", de Remarque.
Més enllà, hi ha poca literatura i poques reflexions. El llibre és una crónica pura i simple dels moviments del regiment de l'autor, dels bombardejos a que fou sotmés i dels assalts a les trinxeres ingleses o franceses. A més, el sistema de notes (agrupades al final del volum) és molt incòmode i obliga el lector a mantener dos punts de lectura constants, ja que aquestes notes són imprescindibles per seguir les anotacions de l'autor.
En resum, un text complementari no apte per profans en la materia.
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46 reviews59 followers
July 15, 2015
Ernst Jünger observa la catástrofe desde un punto de vista personal y determinado por las circunstancias, pero con objetividad, realismo y honestidad, tanto en sus aspectos heroicos y honorables como en los más abyectos y miserables.
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