After I gave my speech last week in Rome, someone came up to me and said, “You have to read The Forest Passage by Ernst Jünger.” I wish I could remember who told me that, but I do remember that they ...

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 ...

Ernst Jünger, the stylish supervillain of twentieth-century German literature, fit the profile of a war hero, however dubious the title may seem in retrospect. While serving in a Prussian infantry ...

Despite seven wounds, author Ernst Junger glorified the war. Nov. 3, 2010— -- August 26, 1916, Guillemont, Somme region, northeastern France: "In front of my hole lies an Englishman who fell ...

WHEN Ernst Jünger became improbably old, his fame could be measured by the quality of his visitors, among them Chancellor Kohl and President Roman Herzog. What were their expectations as they ...

The publication of these extraordinary, sometimes hallucinatory diaries reveals one of the great witnesses to 20th-century Europe’s catastrophe. By Paul Lay Ernst Jünger’s Second World War was less ...

On A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945 by Ernst Jünger. Just five days later, works by Picasso were among the “degenerate art” burned by the Germans in the gardens of the ...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) is a Swedish documentary film from 1998 directed by Jesper Wachtmeister. It consists of an interview ...

Ross Etherton, an assistant professor at Denison, will present “A Forgotten Best-Seller, A Transatlantic Tunnel, and the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The long-lived and controversial Ernst Jünger made his military name in 1914-18 as the youngest officer to win ...