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World War I, one of the most graphic and comprehensive descriptions of the conflict has been published for the first time the war diaries of the author Ernst Jnger, a lieutenant in the German infantry who fought from shortly after the outbreak in August 1. August 1. 91. 8, three months before its end, when he was shot through the lung. ULoACF5S8/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Western Front 1914 Game' title='Western Front 1914 Game' />It was his seventh wound. Jnger only died in 1. The diary written in 1. Jnger wrote later that he couldnt remember if the stains on them were blood or red wine were the basis for his book In Stahlgewittern, or Storm of Steel, a deeply controversial reminiscence first published in 1. He became an icon for conservative nationalists after the war and the Nazis celebrated him as a hero. But he kept them at a distance and declined to join the party. Diary Covered 3 Years and 8 Months of Fighting. Jnger kept on refining Storm of Steel with increasingly poetic passages to satisfy his literary pretensions. But the newly published diary is a raw, factual record of events written down hours or days at most after they occurred. It offers a clear view of life and death in the trenches seen by a soldier who was in the thick of it for most of the war that shaped the 2. Jngers widow, Liselotte Lohrer, only gave permission last year for it to be published. She died this year. I am not aware of any comparable diary, either in German, French or English, that describes the war in such detail and over such a long period, Jngers biographer Helmuth Kiesel, who arranged its transcription and publication, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. All other diaries are usually far shorter and span just a few weeks or months. That is because the average infantryman had a slim chance of surviving even one year intact, let alone the entire conflict. And most werent inclined to relive the misery of life in the trenches by writing it down, day after day, in anatomical detail. Jnger, 1. 9 at the outbreak of the war, joined up immediately, like millions of young men across Europe who thought it would be a quick adventure. But while the dreadful reality of the fighting quickly cooled most mens ardour, Jnger appears to have been gripped throughout by a glowing fascination for war as trial by combat. And still, the heroic, grand impression given by this endless passage of death uplifts and strengthens us survivors. As strange as it may sound, here you become reacquainted with ideals, the total devotion to an ideal right up to the gruesome death in battle, he wrote on July 3, 1. On Sept. 3 of that year, after he had been wounded the second time, by shrapnel in his left leg, he wrote I have witnessed much in this greatest war but the goal of my war experience, the storming attack and the clash of infantry, has been denied me so far. Let this wound heal and let me get back out, my nerves havent had enough yetOn June 1. To be a leader with a clear head in such moments is to resemble God. Few are chosen. Miraculous Luck. Most people would deem his attitude hopelessly conceited and even insane. Kiesel said Jnger may have written those words because he wanted to be remembered as a hero if he was killed but also because he was bent on retaining a sense of individual worth in a mechanized war of massive artillery bombardments in which the individual counted for nothing. Jnger, who won the Iron Cross and Prussias highest military award, the Pour le Merite, took part in the battle of the Somme in 1. Ypres in 1. 91. 7, as well as at Artois and in Champagne. He spent almost three years in the trenches in the bloody triangle between the north eastern French towns of Arras, Albert and Cambrai on the Western Front. He was promoted to lieutenant in November 1. Its the war experience of a hard as nails storm troop leader, historian Gerd Krumeich, one of the authors of the book National Socialism and the First World War, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. Jnger was as lucky as he was courageous. It is almost miraculous that he wasnt killed or crippled. The diary is filled with near misses such as dud shells landing next to him, live ones exploding where he had stood just a minute before and shell splinters whizzing between his legs or around his ears. He was hit by 1. 4 projectiles, only three of which came from indiscriminate artillery fire. The other eleven rifle bullets and hand grenade splinters were directed at him personally by British or French troops. His company of the 7. Hanoverian infantry regiment was almost completely wiped out on two occasions. When he was wounded the last time at Cambrai, two men who tried to carry him to safety on their backs were killed with shots to the head. Gung Ho Approach Contrasts With Most WWI Authors. Jngers approach is in stark contrast with most other prominent portrayals of World War I. German writer Erich Maria Remarque and British authors such as Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves or Edmund Blunden depicted it as an unmitigated disaster for the men who fought in it and for the whole of mankind. Blunden described the battle of Passchendaele as murder, not only to the troops but to their singing faiths and hopes. Jngers account is matched, at least in length of war service, by the British private Francis Philip Woodruff, whose memoir Old Soldiers Never Die written under the pseudonym Frank Richards was first published in 1. Woodruff served the entire war as an infantryman on the Western front, from August 1. Armistice, without serious injury. He said he had pulled off a twenty thousand to one chance. Paradoxically, Jngers enthusiasm makes his diary dramatically effective as an anti war book because he describes death and destruction with relentless precision. He documented events with the same scientific dedication he showed in his other passion of collecting beetles. In his determination to leave nothing out, he also conveys how soldiers became numb to the death around them and to the suffering of others in this first modern war of constant artillery barrages, gas attacks, machine guns and tanks. This afternoon I found two fingers still attached to the metacarpal bone near the latrine of the Altenburg fortress, wrote Jnger on Oct. I picked them up and had the tasteful idea of having them worked into a cigarette holder. But there was still greenish white decomposed flesh between the joints. I decided not to. The diaries are filled with references to wild drinking parties and accounts of weeks spent in wet, cold trenches under constant shellfire.