Top ten books about the Second World War

A Listmania! list by N. Young (London, UK)
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Eastern Approaches
1.  Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Hew Maclean
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  "'Boy's Own' adventure with the SAS and Tito's Partisans"
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The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape
2.  The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape by Tim Carroll
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  "The truth behind the movie - what really happened in Stalag Luft III"
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Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943 (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)
3.  Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943 (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) by James Holland
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  "The whole story about the island that won the George Cross"
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The Cruel Sea
4.  The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
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  "The novel that shows us what the war in the Atlantic was really like"
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Stalingrad
5.  Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
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  "The turning-point on the Eastern Front, superbly told"
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, a Perilous Climb
6.  No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, a Perilous Climb by Felice Benuzzi
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  "An escape story with a difference - Italian PoWs climb a mountain"
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Whicker's War
7.  Whicker's War by Alan Whicker
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  "The making of a TV legend"
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The Colditz Story (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
8.  The Colditz Story (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Pat R. Reid
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  "The classic story of being a PoW in Colditz Castle"
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First Light
9.  First Light by Geoffrey Wellum
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  "Pilot's-eye view of the Battle of Britain"
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To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45
10.  To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 1939-45 by Hermione Ranfurly,Countess of Ranfurly
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  "The wartime diary of an extraordinary and unforgettable woman"
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