The Seventh Cross (Verba Mundi) (Verba Mundi (Paperback))

Seghers, Anna

ISBN 10: 1567922538 / ISBN 13: 9781567922530

Published by David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Seventh Cross (Verba Mundi) (Verba Mundi (Paperback))
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567922538
• ISBN 13: 9781567922530
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 476.3 grams

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Synopsis

Written in 1939, first published in 1942, a national bestseller and a 1943 Book-of-the-Month-Club Main Selection, The Seventh Cross presented a first-hand account of life in Hitler's Germany and 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.

Review

Noble simplicity of style and story...make this novel of pre-war Nazi Germany intensely engrossing and powerfully moving.