![]() ![]() Two of them were Indians, and one a white officer with two gold stars on his shoulder straps a lieutenant, therefore. "At the spot where we had beaten off the flank attack the night before were lying three dead. The next evening, he was again ordered to occupy the outpost where the previous night's fight had taken place. In this, Junger and 20 men were occupying an outpost to their company's front, when they were attacked by a force of the 1st Hariana Lancers.* Junger and his men beat off the attack and made it back to their own lines. ![]() 154-155 of the original 1929 English translation of 'Storm' by Basil Creighton (it appears on pp 151-152 of Michael Hofmann's 2003 translation). The first incident, in June 1917, is recounted on pp. ![]() Two steel helmets, one German and one British, which sit to this day in Ernst Junger's study and which were worn by two men who met on the battlefield on a night in June 1917 in an encounter fatal for one of them, also attest mutely but powerfully to the veracity of Junger's accounts of incidents in 'Storm of Steel'. ![]()
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