If you had just jumped against the Germans, what book would you want?

If you were Maj.
Gen. James Gavin, sleeping on the ground in Holland after Operation
Market Garden, it would be this, as described in a letter to his daughter
written in October 1944:

Would you ask Mommie
to get me a copy of the latest volume of 'Lee's
Lieutenants' by Douglas Southall Freeman, I believe it is Vol. III and has
just been published. It may be difficult to obtain. I'll send you a check along
when I can get to my checkbook if you will let me know the cost.

(From: P. 137,
Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy, The General and
His Daughter: The Wartime Letters of General James M. Gavin to His Daughter
Barbara.)