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Fight or flight?: 33 Place Brugmann, by Alice Austen, reviewed

Residents of a sedate apartment block in Brussels react in very different ways to the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940

Alice Jolly
Alice Austen.  Joe Mazza
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 22 March 2025
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  • 33 Place Brugmann

    Alice Austen

    Bloomsbury, pp. 368, £16

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