What is the best book you've read about the military?

That's a tough question. Team Yankee is up there. As an 19 y/o l/cpl I tried to read the staff study that Team Yankee was written from. Multiple nuclear exchange as I recall. Might be time to listen to it again.

For me this would be the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. I'm not really into non-fiction books though to be honest.

Catch-22

I used to read some military fiction and non-fiction books, but honestly they were few. Then I joined the Army, I brought with me a copy of House to House which I read in my off time as we were able to read something military related. It was an interesting read to say the least, it got my heart pounding at times during some of the combat situations and it broke my heart when the author wrote about the ramifications of war that he experienced with his family.

This Kind of War

Excellent Korean War tome by somebody who was actually there. Very illustrative of what happens when a hollowed out Army is mobilized for war.

I liked Catch 22 when I read it in high school.

I'd have to include more than one. But at the top of my recent list would have to be Jake Tapper's The Outpost, Peter Hart's Gallipoli, and William Dalrymple's Return of a King. All fantastic histories; the first from OEF, the second from the First World War, and the last about the First Anglo-Afghan War. If you haven't read them I recommend all three. Plus James Donovan's The Blood of Heroes about the Alamo and Texas' war for independence is absolutely awesome and highly readable. An old favorite would be Stephen E. Ambrose's Pegasus Bridge, a great story of courage on D-Day.

Thunder Run by David Zucchino.

Catch 22