"Book Recommendation" Topic

Looking for a book recommendation, WWI or WWII.

Books I liked a lot -
Good By To All That – Graves
Crack of Doom – Heinrich
Cross of Iron – Heinrich
Quartered Safe Out Here – Fraser

Want something on Kindle so I can read at night.

Things I'm looking at -
Storm of Steel – Junger
Steel Coffins
Blazen Chariots
War of the Rats or End of War by Robbins
Homage to Catalonia
Company Commander

Have not been able to get into Forgotten Soldier after reading about 1/2 if it. Thought about something by Alan Furst, but started two of those and they did not grab me.

Would prefer something somewhat fictionalized. Heinrich' books best I think I've read.

Suggestions? I'm not wed to anything. Just a good read.

David Robbins is good, he wrote War of the Rats (about snipers in Stalingrad that the film was based on, but the book is much better) and a couple of others.
Battle by Kenneth Macksey is set in Normandy, using three main characters, British,American and German.

"Brazen Chariots" and its prequel "The Gods Were Neutral" are well worth reading.

Homage to Catalonia is politically important, but from a wargaming perspective, I'd skim. As a group, we care about discipline and ammunition shortages, not how Catalans felt about farm co-ops or who really started the fight at the central telegraph office.

Haven't read Junger's Storm of Steel, but I've read On the Marble Cliffs, and the man can write. Also I've seen Storm of Steel very highly spoken of.

Second the recommendation on Robert Crisp.

Remember that Forgotten Soldier appears to be a fake memoir.

"The most frequently cited inaccuracy is Sajer's statement that, after being awarded the coveted Grossdeutschland Division cuff title, he and a friend were ordered to sew it on their left sleeves, when it was actually sewn on the right sleeve. Edwin Kennedy wrote that this error was "unimaginable" for a former member of such an elite German unit. Sajer also discusses campaign locations in vague terms and never with specific dates. For example, he asserts that during the summer of 1942 he was briefly assigned to a Luftwaffe training unit in Chemnitz commanded by famed Stuka ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel, but according to Rudel himself, his training unit was actually in Graz, Austria, during the whole of 1942. Sajer mentions seeing "the formidable Focke-Wulf […] 195s, which could soar up quickly,"[1] taking off from an airfield outside Berlin, when no such aircraft ever existed (a Focke-Wulf projekt 195, a heavy transport, was in the pipeline, but never got off the drawing board[2]). Finally, the names of most of Sajer's companions and leaders do not appear on official rolls in the Bundesarchiv, nor are they known to the Grossdeutschland Veterans Association, whose leader, Helmuth Spaeter, was one of the first to question whether Sajer actually served in the Grossdeutschland Division as he claimed."

Quartered Safe Out Here is a good read. Fraser's easy writing style makes it go by pretty quickly but it is definitely worth the investment.

"Brazen Chariots" and "Company Commander" are both excellent reads.

"Farewell to Catalonia" is interesting but really mainly about Orwell's dissolution with Communism in Spain.

What about All Quiet on the Western Front?

Are the Sven Hassells still in print? I remember them as good reads back in the day. For my money, better than Cross of Iron.