Would you recommend any of the books by Manstein, Rommel, or

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>>9305168
Read the Qo'ran instead, vile Almania scum.

>>9305168
The most important pieces of German literature are Luthers Bible translation (Pretty much the base of the German language, one of the books with the biggest impact in the world) "Das Lied Der Niebellungen" (ancient Germanic folklore, first narrative story to be turned into a book in Germany), everything from Goethe (most important German author, Werther led to a suicide wave, good example for romantic literature and Faust is the national play of Germany, he worked half a century on this), Mein Kampf, das Kapital (cultural impact) and Zarathustra.

>>9305168
1. Guderian's Panzer Leader is a great amoral book on war. You really get what the German Wermacht high command was feeling and thinking.

2. Goethe, >>9305724 this, Grimmelshausen, Junger, Kant and Friends

Clausewitz is a good read IF you are interested in the subject. It is not a light read and i would not have gotten through it if i wasn't thoroughly interested in the subject.

>>9305168
Well if you're interested in military theory just read what you have summed up. Of course German literature has been dominated by the world wars here are some examples: Die Blechtrommel by Grass or Im Westen nichts neues by Remarque.

There are also a lot of Austrian german works like: Radetzkymarsch by Roth (Roth is one of my favourite authors), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften by Musils.

For historical works I recommend Leopold von Ranke he made history into a science.