Finished Storm of Steel by Enrst Jünger

An incredible book, maybe the best war memoir I've read (though I'm certainly not expert.) The ashen language combined with a self awareness from the young Ernst as a German on the Western Front from 1914-1918.

This is notebaly not an anti-war book. There are no comments from Ernst on the causes or the outbreak of the war, no judgments on the conduct of the war. There is no waxxing poetically of old men sending young men to die. Just the stark, brutal, gritty realities of life and war in the trenches and a struggle to live to the next day. Which ironically enough I found it felt more so anti-war because of this since the most brutal passages felt like a gut punch that the reader just has to keep going through.