Seghers, Anna <br/><br/>
The seventh cross 
/ Anna Seghers 
 - New York  : New York Review Books  , 2018 
 - 402 p.  ; 21 cm. 
 - New York Review Books Classics .
<br/><br/> A revelatory World War II novel about a German prisoner of war fleeing for the border and encountering a variety of Germans, good and bad and indifferent, along his way. The Seventh Cross is a hair raising thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany and that is no less exciting today than when it was first published in 1942. Seven political prisoners escape from a Nazi prison camp; in response, the camp commandant has seven trees harshly pruned to resemble seven crosses: they will serve as posts to torture each recaptured prisoner, and capture, of course, is certain. Meanwhile, the escapees split up and flee across Germany, looking for such help and shelter as they can find along the way, determined to reach the border. Anna Seghers's novel is not only a supremely suspenseful story of flight and pursuit but also a detailed portrait of a nation in the grip and thrall of totalitarianism. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the German to English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781681372129 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>World War---Germany---1939-1945----Fiction<br/>World War, 1939-1945---Prisoners and prisons----Fiction<br/>Escaped prisoners of war---Fiction---Germany<br/>Fascism---History---Fiction---Germany---20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PT2635.A27  / S513 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC SEG