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Rating: I wanted to read a gruesome Horror book. I wanted to scare myself and reflect on the anxieties that afflict the soul.......
One day, a fine connoisseur of Lovecraft recommended this book to me, calling it chilling.....and by god, he was right!
The author, E. Junger, was a zoologist who also conducted experiments with psychotropic substances. He recounts his experience on the front of the Great War through the cold and detached eyes of a scientist.
The result is a meticulous and detailed account of the horrific situations in the trenches, where life takes on a heroic value, unlike how we are used to bringing our pristine behinds home today.
Disease, the noise of war, pain, morphine, hungry rats...it truly feels like being in the trenches, given how skillfully the book is written.
One of the best Horror books because, deep down, war is frightening now, but back then, people thought more of heroism rather than the hedonism that prevails in our society.
I advise visiting those places, especially the areas surrounding Haguenau in French Alsace, where I often got lost wandering under the influence of psychotropic substances (always respecting the laws and other people) remembering the sacrifice of thousands who died for future generations...RIP Heroes.
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