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Hunted, injured and desperate, time is running out for George, and whoever is caught aiding in his escape will pay with their life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Cross\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most powerful and influential novels of the twentieth century, a tense thriller that helped to alert the world to the grim realities of Nazi Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Cross\u003c\/i\u003e shaped me; it sharpened my vision' GUNTER GRASS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA fascinating insight into life in pre-war Nazi Germany just as the horrors of the Nazi regime were beginning to unfold. This is an important novel, as much for its picture of German society as for its insight into the psyche of ordinary people confronting their personal fears and mixed loyalties' SIMON MAWER, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Cross,\u003c\/i\u003e Seghers's aim was to write, 'A tale that makes it possible to get to know the many layers of fascist Germany through the fortunes of a single man.' She had four copies of the manuscript: one was destroyed in an air raid; a friend lost the second copy while fleeing the Nazis; another was found by the Gestapo; only the fourth copy survived, which, fortunately, she sent to her publisher in America just before she escaped Nazi-occupied France. Published in 1942, \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Cross \u003c\/i\u003ewas an immediate bestseller and was the basis for an MGM film starring Spencer Tracy in 1944. 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