My recent reading has been all WWII, in that the 3 books I bought to take on holiday with me were Stephen Ambrose's 'D-Day', Knut Haukelid's 'Skis against the atom' (Telemark), and George Macdonald Fraser's 'Quartered safe out here' (Burma).
I have to say that no amount of filmic entertainment could ever come close the the memoirs in those books. Haukelid and Fraser, from the perspective of the man on the ground, and the meaning (or lack of it) from their point of view, are particularly worth reading. Fraser's view of where British society has gone since the war is also interesting.