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May 2022 Issue Will Wiles Build ’em Up, Knock ’em Down Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy By Charlotte Van den Broeck (Translated from Dutch by David McKay) LR
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June 2003 Issue Claus Von Bulow Football and Facism Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football In Europe During The Second World War By Simon Kuper A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II By Emmy E Werner LR
March 2004 Issue Helen Randolph New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York By Russell Shorto LR
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