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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of February 23, 1969

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AIRPORT
Arthur Hailey
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AIRPORT

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

48 wks on list

Set in Lincoln International Airpot, this novel portrays several airport hours during a midwinter snowstorm and the men and women who share them.

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FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE
Alistair MacLean
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FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE

by Alistair MacLean · Doubleday

10 wks on list

Straight from the action of The Guns of Navarone, the three Navarone heroes, Mallory, Miller and Andrea, are worn out and exhausted. Yet they have been called to make their first parachute jump into war-torn Yugoslavia. Under the code name of Force 10, they are to discover why the leaders of all four of the British Military Missions have gone missing and why 99 per cent of airlift supplies to the Yugoslavian Partisans have fallen into German hands. The aces are prepared to risk their lives and enter "the cruelest, hardest, most brutal war in Europe today" to find the answers.

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PRESERVE AND PROTECT
Allen Drury
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PRESERVE AND PROTECT

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

22 wks on list

Uses characters and settings from Advise and consent, A shade of difference, and Capable of honor.

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TESTIMONY OF TWO MEN
Taylor Caldwell
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TESTIMONY OF TWO MEN

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

Someday the town of Hambledon might forget the lies they told about their brilliant young doctor. But they could never forgive the truths he told about them. From this compelling story of a doctor at war with the world he has been taught to heal, Taylor Caldwell has fashioned a novel of an unforgettable, angry idealist -- a novel in which the drama of new medical frontiers becomes part of a sweeping chronicle of love, death, desire, and redemption.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.