← Anna SeghersThe Seventh Crossby Anna SeghersResistance fighter escaping Nazi prison camp in wartime GermanyFind on Amazon↗About the authorAnna SeghersGerman author whose anti-fascist novel The Seventh Cross became an international sensation during World War II. She was one of the most important writers of the German Democratic Republic.More by Anna SeghersTransitExistential novel of refugees in Vichy France during World War II→The Revolt of the FishermenHistorical novella about fishermen's uprising in pre-Soviet Russia→The Dead Stay YoungNovel spanning generations of family during Communist East Germany→Benito's Blue→