#52 Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
Book Club From Hell
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The Boring Life of a Soldier in the First World War
This was a really good book, what did you think of it actually? It was, I found it. Weirdly good. I didn't really know what to expect going in, but he's a very good writer. But it criticises my make of many books on this podcast is that they're really boring and monotonous. And this book is very monotonous in places, but not boring, or at least it's meaningfully monotonously. So apparently in the later versions, I took out a lot of the gore. Even in the more sedate parts of the book, every now and then in artillery, she'll just land in someone's house and kill a
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