My suggestion for a jolly good read would be Sniper One.
It tells the story of surviving in Al Amarah, i spent a couple of nights in the overhead of that town watching the Warriors and MBTs entering to get resupply to those holding out. At the same time, one young army driver won a Victoria cross. Fascinating to read of the conditions on the ground, the author says that the used more ammunition defending themselves than was used in the whole of the UK part of GW2, Not sure how true that is but our buddy aircraft fired a lot of 30mm shells in the two nights.