Rec me please? WWll novels by participants

Hello Group, happy to have found you!
I'm not entirely sure it's permissible to ask for book recommendations, but...

What I'm interested in are WW2 novels/stories written by people involved. Or written using journals/letters by people involved.

I know of German ones, but not translated (as far as I know). Anything in English?

The Naked and the Dead, The Thin Red Line, The Cruel Sea,...three good ones.

*headdesk* and Alexander Kent, how did I forget...

Also found Bomber by Len Deighton

Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier (not really a novel though, rather an autobiography)

Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Bucheim has been translated into English (and, of course, made into a memorable film).

Anything by English/American authors/participants? I do have the unfair advantage of just being able to read the German stuff... being German...

In that case, I'd surely suggest Brave Men and Here's Your War by the American WWII journalist Ernie Pyle.

Great, thanks!

Quartered Safe Out Here, about GMF's experiences in Burma, is one of my favourites - for me, way better than his fiction. I've listed to the audiobook - read by the author in his Geordie brogue - three times and I never re-read books! I went on to read Slim's autobiography Defeat Into Victory on the back of it. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy is a classic. Not a novel, but With the Old Breed: At Pelileu and Okinawa is very well written and almost feels like a work of fiction. Not English, but I would highly recommend Life and Fate if you have not read it. I would second The Cruel Sea - superb book and the old black-and-white film captures it perfectly (wonderful Rawsthorne music too!).