https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1696237726/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

WWI trench warfare account by a German. In its original non edited form.

I just finished Countdown 1945, it was really good, it followed the 115 days from Truman becoming the President to dropping the bomb, with perspectives from the Manhattan Project, what Truman was dealing with, the pilots preparing for the mission, and a Japanese survivor from Hiroshima

I'd also strongly recommend "In Harm's Way" about the USS Indianapolis, fantastic book.

I also enjoyed Helmet for My Pillow, by Robert Leckie.

I'm a sucker for books on the Pacific Theater as both my grandfathers were there, and one was an MP who guarded the Enola Gay the days leading up to the Hiroshima bombing.
I just started D-Day Girls about women spies in Europe leading up to D-Day, thought a different perspective might be interesting.

Maximus_Meridius said:

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Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by Hornfischer.

Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

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Just finished James D. Hornfischer's Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.

An amazing story of heroism from the Battle off Samar on the morning of October 25, 1944. In short, a collection of oral histories collected (I presume) from Navy veteran's reunions in the late 1990's - early 2000's. Incredibly detailed with an almost minute-by-minute account of the final surface ship versus surface ship battle of World War II. (Interestingly, although Hornfischer lived in Austin, I don't recall any sources from the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg.)

Hornfischer quotes Herman Wouk: "The vision of Sprague's three destroyers--the Johnston, the Hoel, and the Hermann--charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita's battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don't have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it."

I've enjoyed the books by British author Lloyd Clark.

he's written good books on Anzio, Kursk, and Market Garden (Crossing the Rhine)

dcbowers said:

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Maximus_Meridius said:

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Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by Hornfischer.

Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

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Just finished James D. Hornfischer's Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors.

An amazing story of heroism from the Battle off Samar on the morning of October 25, 1944. In short, a collection of oral histories collected (I presume) from Navy veteran's reunions in the late 1990's - early 2000's. Incredibly detailed with an almost minute-by-minute account of the final surface ship versus surface ship battle of World War II. (Interestingly, although Hornfischer lived in Austin, I don't recall any sources from the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg.)

Hornfischer quotes Herman Wouk: "The vision of Sprague's three destroyers--the Johnston, the Hoel, and the Hermann--charging out of the smoke and the rain straight toward the main batteries of Kurita's battleships and cruisers, can endure as a picture of the way Americans fight when they don't have superiority. Our schoolchildren should know about that incident, and our enemies should ponder it."

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I knew nothing about that battle before reading Hornfischer's book. It was an incredible read. In a different era, poems would have been written about the charge of those three destroyers.

1942 - Winston Groom
The Generals - Winston Groom

Currently reading "A Storm in Flanders" by Groom

1942 was an excellent read. I recommend it to all.
( Winston Groom also wrote "Forrest Gump")

The Generals was as well. Everything I've read of Grooms has been excellent.

Finishing up my current book...anyone have any good recommendations for books in regards to The Battle of the Bulge?

I like Alamo In The Ardennes.

Thanks