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Anne Sebba

Biography

Anne Sebba

Anne Sebba is a prize-winning biographer, lecturer and former Reuters foreign correspondent who has written several books, including THAT WOMAN and LES PARISIENNES. A former chair of Britain’s Society of Authors and now on the Council, Anne is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She lives in London.

Anne Sebba

Books by Anne Sebba

The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
by Anne Sebba - History, Nonfiction

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra be formed among the female prisoners. Almost 50 women and girls from 11 nations were drafted into a band that would play in all weathers marching music to other inmates. They were also made to give weekly concerts for Nazi officers, and individual members were sometimes summoned to give solo performances. For almost all of the musicians chosen to take part, being in the orchestra saved their lives. But at what cost? Anne Sebba draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members, and the response of other prisoners for the first time.

Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
by Anne Sebba - Biography, History, Nonfiction

In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than 30 years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then.