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_aPT2635.A27 _bS513 2018 |
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_aFIC SEG _2 |
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| 100 | 1 | _aSeghers, Anna | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 |
_aThe seventh cross _c/ Anna Seghers |
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_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2018 |
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_a402 p. _c; 21 cm. |
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| 490 | 0 | _aNew York Review Books Classics | |
| 520 | _aA 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. | ||
| 546 | _aTranslated from the German to English | ||
| 650 | 4 |
_aWorld War _y-1939-1945 _z-Germany _v--Fiction |
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_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _x-Prisoners and prisons _v--Fiction |
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| 650 | 4 |
_aEscaped prisoners of war _z-Germany _x-Fiction |
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| 650 | 4 |
_aFascism _z-Germany _x-History _y-20th century _x-Fiction |
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_aDembo, Margot Bettauer _e, Translator |
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