Some of these are mentioned previpusly, but I emphasize them as high quality reads:
1. Rick Atkinson - Liberation trilogy
- Army at Dawn - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- Day of Battle
- Guns at Last Light
2. Stephen Hunter - everything he writes is good fiction. Just finished "The Third Bullet", good read but not his best.
3. Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors - James Hornfischer - Amazing history of the battle between outgunned US navy and the Japanese fleet.
4. T.E. Lawrence - Revolt in the Desert or Seven Pillars of Wisdom
5. War of the Rats - David Robbins- Fictionalization of the sniper battles in Stalingrad
6. The Griffin - Arnold Kramish - Story of how one of Hitler's top scientists fed info to the allies
7. A Man Called Intrepid - William Stevenson - Story of how William Stephenson brought the US and British intelligence agencies together on the eve of WWII, and ultimately led to the creation of the CIA. By FAR one of the best books I've ever read, hands down.
8. Intrepid's Last Case - Post WWII actvities of William Stephenson
9. David Grossman - psychology of killing other humans
- On Combat
- On Killing