Two excellent and related books!
I got into reading Quartered Safe Out Here because of the author’s other works, and as a direct result, read Slim’s book.
If you liked those, please check out the “McAuslin” books by Fraser.
Fictionalized accounts based on his post-war army service - and truly hilarious. 
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan, by Ronald Spector. A pretty concise overview attempting to get a handle on the vastness of the Pacific War.
Also, I’d like to nominate the opening chapter(s) of Keegan’s The Second World War, “Every Man a Soldier,” for as cogent and concise a summing-up of the currents that drove Europe into the First World War, which Keegan rightly notes begat the Second. It sheds a lot of light.
Implicit in my earlier post, but I’ll spell it out: Shelby Foote’s great narrative trilogy on the American Civil War.
Sailboat
You should. Then you could say this.
I have two suggestions, if you want humorous war novels.
The Good Soldier Svejk, by Jaroslav Hasek.
and Catch-22, by Joseph Heller.
Both are excellent at pointing out the insanity of bureaucracy in the military at war, at of war itsself.
For a Finnish perspective on the second world war, i recommend the novel The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna. The Winter War is probably the best Finnish war movie.
For an understanding of the history of war, I would suggest Gwynne Dyer’s “War,” which gives, IMHO, a much more insightful, and psycholocially and anthropologically interesting, view of the changes in the fundamental nature of human conflict, although it’s not that far removed from Keegan in a lot of respects.
Norman Dixon’s “On The Psychology of Military Incompetence” is also required reading for anyone looking to understand why war unfolds as it does.
I once heard that this movie is a great anti-war film because it shows just how violent and deadly actual conflict is. When I saw it I couldn’t help but think, “Dude, I wanna be a Ranger!.”
But then I remembered that I am way too lazy to even attempt to be one.
Agreed - I’ve been banned from reading them in company as my laughter annoys the rest of the family too much
I can’t believe I’m the first to mention War and Peace by Tolstoy
Is the Gwynne Dyer book the one based on the TV series? If so, I read it many years ago and liked it. Maybe time for a re-read; can’t remember it too well.
Haven’t read the Dixon book. Sounds interesting.
“I’m no’ dirty!” 