Ernest Jnger's Storm of Steel is mainly the personal memoirs of a soldier in the First World War. Jnger's book expanded the usual war diary and adds personal reflections that the author added when writing. It is in this form of an expanded war diary that Junger tells his amazing story of killing, savagery, honor, cowardice, and bravery. Throughout Storm of Steel Jnger passes through the youthful enthusiasm for war and comes to reality with the callous harsh reality of war, suffers through boredom, fights with humanitarian understanding and still manages to escape alive.