The seventh cross
Edición de la obra The seventh cross
| Autor | Anna Seghers |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Hamish Hamilton |
| Fecha de publicación | 1943 |
| Lugar | London |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Número de Cutter | S454s |
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.