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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of March 9, 1969

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AIRPORT
Arthur Hailey
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AIRPORT

by Arthur Hailey · Doubleday

50 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

12 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

24 wks on list

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

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THE LOST CITY
John Gunther
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THE LOST CITY

by John Gunther · Harper & Row

An American foreign correspondent and his wife are caught up in the surge of events in Vienna during the 1930's.

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