I also recommend "Band of Brothers." Ambrose certainly does his homework. Also, just finished "Duty" by Bob Greene, the newspaper columnist. It's about his dad, that generation and Gen. Paul Tibbetts, the pilot of the Enola Gay. Pretty interesting...the Boomers are re-evaluating the "Greatest Generation"...finally...after calling them warmongers and pigs when they were young.
sigh.
"The Art Of Shen Ku" by Zeek. You really cannot read this book to get the best from it. You have to live it.