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The seventh cross
- Title
- The seventh cross [by] Anna Seghers; Tr. from the German by James A. Galston.
- Author
- Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983.
- Publication
- Boston, Little, Brown, 1942.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PT2635.A27 S513 1942 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Galston, James A. (James Austin), 1881-1954
- Description
- 338 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 BOMC Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a still doubtful, naive America a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and of the horrors of the concentration camps. Seven men attempt an escape from Westhofen; the camp commander erects seven crosses, one for each. Only one, the young communist, Heisler, survives, not by cunning or superior skill, but through the complicity of a web of common citizens unwilling to bow to the Gestapo and forced to make decisions that will determine the character of their future lives.
- Uniform Title
- Siebte Kreuz. English
- Alternative Title
- Siebte Kreuz.
- Subject
- 1933-1945
- Nazi concentration camp escapes > Fiction
- Nazi concentration camp inmates > Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction
- Nazi concentration camp escapes
- Nazi concentration camp inmates
- German fiction > Translations into English
- National socialism > Fiction
- Nazi concentration camps > Fiction
- Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction
- Germany
- Genre/Form
- novels.
- Novels
- Fiction
- History
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- German fiction.
- Romans.
- Note
- Author's pseud., Anna Seghers, at head of title.
- LCCN
- 42020567
- OCLC
- ocm00295393
- 295393
- SCSB-119120
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library