I highly recommend 4 books by James Holland called. The Odin Mission, Darkest Hour, Blood of Honor and Hellfire. They're all involving a fiction soldier called Jack Tanner. It is like Sharpe, but basically a WW2 version of Sharpe.
Steven Gerrard Autobiography. Fantastic read, espically the shocking part when he was youngster. He was playing on a field near his house with his mate. The ball accidentally went into the nettles, and Gerrard tried to kick the ball out of there then all off a sudden, he kicked again a second...