In the Walls Came Tumbling Down, writer Dutch Henriette Roosenburg tells about her attempts to return to the Netherlands from Germany after being released from prison at the end of WWII.

THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED (245 pp.)—Ivan Bahriany—St. Martin’s Press ($3.50).

THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN (248 pp.)—Henriette Roosenburg—Viking ($3.50).

Each of these books is an intriguing mixture of political terror and pastoral. The authors spent years in those plague spots of the 20th century—concentration…