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I was under the impression that Junger's opinion was that war could be edifying, but the wholesale slaughter of the world wars was a Bad Thing. That said I'd have to actually move the book out of my to-read pile to know for sure
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I just listened to the audio book of it a few months ago. My general impression of Junger is sort of as an adrenaline junkie. If he lived 100 years later, he'd be into wingsuit flying or something. Some parts are fairly hilarious. He once slept through his billet being blown up.
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Yes. Storm of Steel is basically this guy living his best life. There’s a bit where he’s a bit melancholy - whinging about all the fat rats and hanging his coat on some guy’s leg bones - but mostly it’s ‘I’ve never felt so alive’ and getting repeatedly shot.
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FWIW my Grandad lost his country, his family and all of his friends in WW2. He once got drunk and said “they were the best years of my life”. I think that, despite what the poets say, most people really enjoy war.
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Dudes reading war memoirs used to be a lot more common. Still probably is, tbh.
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Every war memoir/history I read terrified me. Citizen Soldiers, With the Old Breed, So Sad to Fall in Battle, In Harm's Way...jeez.
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