Spike Milligans war diaries - i love how he captures the banter and laughs amongst everyman soldiers in WW2, and how you can see the seeds of the goon show and monty python developing in WW2. He also balances it well with the sadness of war
I hadnt read them for years and Al Murray was talking about them on his ww2 podcast and i reread them
I remember reading his cameo in life of brian was due to him happening to be in the dessert researching the later books