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Poilu is another remarkable WWI memoir, written by barrelmaker Louis Barthas. The Kaiser's Reluctant Conscript is also good; Dominik Richard was a man from Alsace (one of the regions seized from France in 1871) drafted into the German army (and not very happy about it).
If you like non-fiction and WWI, I've been reading Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker which is amazing first-account of a a French soldier, from his conscription, to the end of the war.
Barthas is just a cooper, but his writing is amazing. He was in his 30's when he was conscripted, and he has this "I'm too old for this shit" attitude (combined with his socialist beliefs).