Books: Tenacity in a Drowned World

ROLL BACK THE SEA (435 pp.)—A. Den Doolaard, translated by Burrows Mussey—Simon & Schuster ($2.95).

Early in October 1944, the British bombed the Dutch island of Walcheren (pop. 60,000), which is largely below sea level. When the bombs fell, "the dikes bowed their straight backs like animals rearing in fright . . . Suddenly the water began to move across Walcheren. It billowed in through the front door of Flushing and the side door of Westkapelle; through the back door of Veere it ran out . . . Now the air photos grew daily more satisfactory. Dozens...

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