Which are the best war memoirs to read? Any conflict.

>>1917085
git good

>>1917085

Strange Defeat.

Strange Defeat.

Strange Defeat.

I'm sick of being the only person who's read it. Read it. Now.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4)
Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(9) . . .
Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12)
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13)
To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.(15)

>>1917085

Storm of Steel

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British infantry in Burma, WW2. The author of "Flashman" tells his own story.

Belongs right up there beside "With The Old Breed" by Sledge.

SOG Secret Wars of Americas Commandos by John L Plaster best book I've ever read even bought it

>>1917085
Anabasis, by Xenophon
The Gallic Wars, by Julius Caesar

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Pic related.

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>>1917085

Good-bye to all That by Robert Graves, it goes into his time in the british infantry during ww1 and discusses at length how the experience of the war has irrevocably changed society.

>>1917640
Also, All Quiet on the Western Front

>>1917085
Homage to Catalonia.

>>1917640
>>1917709
Oops someone already said it, my bad.

Memoirs of sergent bourgogne
A soldier in Napoleon's invasion of russia

Storm of steel
wwi, very stoic and descriptive

I quite like The War the Infantry Knew.

It's a compiled account from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers of the enitrety of the Great War from mobilization to demobilization.

It's great seeing the day-to-day activities of the soldiers, and watching as the names of the soldiers throughout the war slowly replace eachother.

One Soldier's War In Chechnya is my personal favourite.

>Russian gut gets started Into first Chechen war
>Hates every second of it
>Complete brutality
>Goes home
>Second Chechen war happens
>Immediately volunteers to go back

>>1918459
Russian guy gets drafted*

>>1917085
With the Old Breed at Okinawa and Peleliu by E.B. Sledge. It was surprisingly good.

>>1917657
Not a memoir. It was mostly based on >>1917206
which is pretty fucking awesome.

Storm of Steel is GOAT

A Moment of War
Homage to Catalonia

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Memoirs? Why would you need them when john green's brilliant analysis is more than enough?

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A thing about storm of steel is that Ernst Jünger was an exceptional soldier
He lived through almost the whole war and experienced it at first hand and got a ton of awards
Compare say remarque to him, and he looks like a pussy
Guys like Jünger are one in a thousand, that has to be considered when reading the book and how Jünger ecperienced things

Not a war memoir, but The Damage Done by some Aussie who did time in Thailand or some shit is pretty fucking crazy.

>>1917085
The Forgotten Soldier is a fairly good read

Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

Forsaken Army by Heinrich Gerlach

The Willing Flesh by Willi Heinrich

>>1919682
>John Green
No.

Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS, by Leon Degrelle

Blood red snow

>mg34 gunner on the eastern front for around 3 years

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Anabasis / A March Up the Country by Xenophon

Georgy Zhukov - Marshal of Victory: Let The Bodies Hit the Floor

anyone know a good memoir with tank crewmen?

>>1922565
Tigers in the Mud is the only one I've read. It was okay.

Storm of Steel just for it's completely different outlook from the majority of ohsosad war memoirs.