The Forgotten Soldier, by Guy Sayer
This is a memoir of German teenaged soldier serving on the Eastern Front -- tis an unforgettable book.
Donald Burgett has a series of books, first person accounts of various battles during world war ii. I have always heard the war stories from friends parents, and parents friends, and other people who served, this book, takes the glamor out of those war stories.
While sentimental, and not of the war itself, I'd also read The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw, makes you appreciate that generation.
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