Vlamgat by Dick Lord is an excellent book as are his other books but my favourite is "From Tailhooker to Mudmover".
Stuka Pilot by Hans-Ulrich Rudel is a memorable read.The writing style takes a few pages to get used to but (I am assuming) this may be because of translation from German to English. This is a taste of what his achievements were:
"Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft which he shot down"
Can anyone reccomend anything that has been published in the last 18 months relating to recent events ?