The 10 best novels about World War II - Mal Warwick On Books 10.11.2022 · The Best of Our Spies (Spies #1) by Alex Gerlis (2012) 620 pages ★★★★★—An extraordinary World War II spy story grounded in historical fact. A number of excellent nonfiction books have been written about the exploits of British Intelligence in World War II, some of them by the practitioners themselves.