War Memoirs

>>8668330
>Bonus for pre 18th Century (do these even exist?!).
Caesar

>>8668330
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

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>>8668330
this is pretty good and I dont ever see it discussed here. Also noot really war memoir, more like war-times momoir

Xenophon's Anabasis,which is basically about his army of 10,000 being stranded in Persia and having to fight their way back out.
I've been looking for a copy for a while now but still have yet to find one.

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>>8670366
Storm of steel is in my opinion the best memoir of an infantry guy just trying to survive the meat grinder of war. He is factual and unemotional in his detailed encounters with the enemy and only after does he reflect on the actual consequences of what happened.

It's like that because his book is based on his war diary but he wrote the book as an old man. I think it gives the most honest account about how it is to be a veteran fighter in a modern war.

I recently read a book called 'Fighting for the French foreign legion' by Alex Lochrie which has the same traita in my opinion as Ernest but from small scale modern military conflicts that honestly are kind of boring.
Regardless it gives an honest account on what it's like to leave your life behind and join one of the best fighting forces in the world so if anyone wants a real account of that kind of hero fantasy I recommend that book in particular.