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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 7, 1955

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THE GOOD SHEPHERD
C.S. Forester
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THE GOOD SHEPHERD

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown and Company

18 wks on list

Now a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of "high and glittering excitement" (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, The Good Shepherd is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.

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RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
Edward L. Beach
Cover of RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP

RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP

by Edward L. Beach · Henry Holt and Company

16 wks on list

An American equivalent of Das Boot, this gripping, bestselling novel of submarine warfare inspired a well-known Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Clark Gable. Set in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the tension-filled story focuses o

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THE SCOTSWOMAN
Inglis Clark Fletcher

THE SCOTSWOMAN

by Inglis Clark Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

Action, adventure, and romance, with Flora Macdonald as the central character.

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