In reply to broken spectre:
Book wise:
Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi (the power of this is magnified for those who have read the likes of The Great Escape as it underlines how similar many of the soldiers actually were)
Forever war by Joe Halderman
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer (again, underscoring the similarity between people who would have been soldiers, Harrer was mainly able to avoid the war by being on an expedition at its outbreak).