The correspondence between Gretha Jünger, née von Jeinsen, and Carl Schmitt is a document of great interest to contemporary historians, history enthusiasts, as well as literary and cultural historians and readers of Ernst Jünger's works. The correspondence spans a period of more than two decades, from March 1934 to October 1954, and consists of 66 letters from Carl Schmitt and 89 letters from Gretha Jünger. Carl Schmitt (1888 - 1985) is one of the outstanding jurists and political thinkers of the 20th century, whose work has generated almost passionate interest worldwide over the last 20 years, as evidenced by the still-growing number of translations. This correspondence is the only one that Carl Schmitt maintained with a woman over an extended period. The writer Gretha Jünger, who...