Nice post. For me the best book is still “ Im Westen nichts Neues” (English title is “All quiet on the Western Front”). Read it more than 20 years ago during high school and still find it a masterpiece about the hardships during the WW 1 trench warfare. The topic itself and the vivid yet simple and daily description of the lives of the German soldiers make it a good book. Also, to a certain extent the book itself is timeless and good also be about soldiers coping with war and the home front in more recent wars