I'm looking for suggestions for great war books.
Recently read and enjoyed; A Storm of Steel, Generals Die in Bed, With the Old Breed and in a slightly different vein, Slaughterhouse V.
I've seen a lot of war movies, and enjoy reading books I haven't "seen". In particular first hand accounts.
Cheers
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**War Memoirs:**
**Napoleonic**
*The Compleat Rifleman Harris – The Adventures of a Soldier of the 95th (Rifles) During the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars* by Benjamin Harris, Rifleman, 2/95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles), British Army.
**American Civil War**
*Co. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show* by Samuel R. Watkins, CPL, H Company, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.
**WWI**
*Storm of Steel* by Ernst Jünger, Hauptman, 7th Company, 73rd Infantry Regiment, 111th Infantry Division, Imperial German Army.
*The Outlaws* by Ernst von Salomon, Hamburg Freikorps Bahrenfeld, Freikorps.
**WWII**
*With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa* by E.B. Sledge, CPL, 1st Mar. Div., U.S.M.C.
*The Forgotten Soldier* by Guy Sajer, Großdeutschland Division, Wehrmacht (considered a classic).
*The Battle for Burma: The Wild Green Earth* by BG Bernard Fergusson, KT, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, OBE, 16th Infantry Brigade (Chindit).
*Ray Parkin’s Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom* by Ray Parkin, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.A.S. *Perth*, Royal Australian Navy.
*Three Corvettes* by Nicholas Monsarrat, LtCdr, FRSL RNVR.[]()
*Japanese Destroyer Captain* by Tameichi Hara, CPT, IJN, Fred Saito and Roger Pineau.
*The Cretan Runner: The Story of the German Occupation* by Giórgos Psychountákis, Cretan Resistance Fighter.
**Korea**
*The Three-Day Promise: A Korean Soldier’s Memoir* by Donald K. Chung, Republic of Korea Army (AKA ROK Army or South Korean Army).
*Soldier* by Anthony B Herbert, LTC, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army.
**Vietnam**
*We Were Soldiers Once… and Young* by Lt. Gen. Harold G. ‘Hal’ Moore, Cdr, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army, and Joseph L. Galloway, reporter for UPI.
*Dispatches* by Michael Herr, journalist, *Esquire*.
*The Soldiers Story: The Battle at Xa Long Tan Vietnam, 18 August 1966* by Terry Burstall, LCPL, D Company, 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR).
*Guns Up!* by Johnnie M. Clark, PFC, 2nd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (Rein.), FMF (Fleet Marine Force), U.S.M.C.
**Post-Vietnam**
*Peacekeepers at War Beirut 1983 – The Marine Commander Tells His Story* by Timothy Geraghty, COL (Ret.), U.S.M.C.
*No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL* by Mark Owen (AKA Matt Bissonnette) PO3, SEAL, U.S. Navy.
*13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi* by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team.
A Surgeon in Khaki by Arthur Anderson Martin