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ROLL BACK THE SEA (435 pp.)-A. Den Doolaard, translated by Burrows Mussey-Simon & Schuster...
Roll Back the Sea is a hard-working attempt to make fiction of their achievement. Its author, A. Den Doolaard (real name, Cornelus Spoelstra) is a 47-year-old Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...
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