[Possum]

SF
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Any of the Hammer's Slammers books by David Drake.

The Draka novels, (Marching through Georgia, Under the Yoke, The Stone Dogs), by SM Stirling.

The General series, (The Forge, The Anvil, The Hammer, The Steel, The Sword), by David Drake and SM Stirling.

The War in 2020, by Ralph Peters. This is a superb novel, but very depressing. A tragedy worthy of Euripides.


Non-SF, but highly reccommended
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The Forgotten Soldier, by Guy Sajer. The author's memoir of his service in the Gross Deutschland division in russia. Nota Bene: Gross Deutschland was an elite regular army division, not Waffen SS.

Sand in the Wind, by Robert Roth. My stepfather (45 months in SE Asia, the first 13 with 1st Mar Div, the rest with 2nd Force Recon Bn) commended this book to me as the most realistic story of the war in vietnam that he had ever read.

Le Rue Sans Joi, or Street Without Joy, by profesor Bernard Fall. An excellent overview of the french experience in southeast asia 1945-56, by a man who was born there.

Company Commander by Charles B. Macdonald. A classic. The commander of an infantry company in europe from shortly after the breakout through the end of the war, Macdonald states the blunt truth like nobody else.