[Taylor42]

Try "With The Old Breed".

It's a marine's story of his time on Peleliu and Okinawa.

[Skooz]

"With the Old Breed"

You beat me to it. Excellent book. The author is E.B. Sledge, who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago.

I would add the brilliant (and new) two-volume biography of Hitler by Ian Kershaw. The first volume is "Hubris," the second, "Nemisis."