1974 First Edition hardcover; 380 pages; past library book with usual stamps and markings. DJ is mylar protected; no internal markings noted. Some light browning from age. Tightly bound. McGraw-Hill Book Co. Historical/Nazi German extermination camps; photos. Please ask if you have questions.

Into that darkness;: From mercy killing to mass murder

History

GITTA SERENY

Europe

McGraw=Hill

In December 1968 two girls - Mary Bell, eleven, and Norma Bell, thirteen (neighbors, but not related) - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, England, accused of strangling, within a six-week period, Martin Brown, four years old, and Brian Howe, three.  Norma was acquitted.  Mary Bell, the younger but infinitely more sophisticated and cooler of the two, was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder because of "diminished responsibility" and was sentenced to "detention" for life.Step by step, the extraordinary murders, the events surrounding them, the alternately bizarre and nonchalant behavior of the the two girls, their brazen offers to help the distraught families of the dead boys, the police work that led to their apprehension, and the trial itself are grippingly re-created in this rare study of the wanton murder of child by child.  What emerges with equal force is the inability of society to anticipate such events and to take adequate steps once disaster has struck.The intermeshing threads of this chilling case and, above all, Ms. Sereny's painstaking and vital reconstruction of Mary's family life keep the reader spellbound and complete the devastating story that begins with the mysterious death of a four-year-old boy.

The case of Mary Bell;: A portrait of a child who murdered

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The German Trauma

Oxford Allen Lane

Invisible Children: Child Prostitution in America, Britain and Germany

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Andre Deutsch Publishing

Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience

Vintage

Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (Picador Books)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Picador

Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him and Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Spandau Prison at the Nuremberg Trails, Speer attempted to progress from moral extinction to moral self-education. How he came to terms with his own acts and failures to act and his real culpability in Nazi war crimes are the questions at the centre of this book. The author had access to Speer, his family and friends and his private papers. After twelve years of research and writing after Speer's death the result is one of the most inimate, and best informed books on Hitler and the Third Reich. Gitta Sereny's previous books include the masterful international success, Into that Darkness, on Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka death camp. `This is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in Nazi Germany or, for that matter, in the complexity of human behaviour.' - Alan Bullock, author of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny 'Required reading for anyone who wants to get inside the working of the Third Reich.' - Ian Kershaw

Albert Speer His Battle With Truth

Biographies & Memoirs

Humanity Press/prometheus Bk

Pieces together the damaged life of Mary Bell, who aged 11 was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the death of two young boys. Only as an adult has she been able to realize the moral enormity of her crimes. The story of her life forces the reader to consider society's responsibility for children's crime. Originally published in 1998.

Cries Unheard the Story of Mary Bell

Pieces together the damaged life of Mary Bell, who aged 11 was tried and convicted of manslaughter after the death of two young boys. Only as an adult has she been able to realize the moral enormity of her crimes. The story of her life forces the reader to consider society`s responsibility for children`s crime. Originally published in 1998.

Cries Unheard : Story of Mary Bell

True Crime

Papermac

Albert Speer was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister, but the Fuhrer's closest friend--his "unhappy love." Speer was one of the few defendants at the Nuremberg Trials to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this enigma of a man is unveiled in a monumental biography by a writer who came to know Speer intimately in his final years. Out of hundreds of hours of interviews, Sereny unravels the threads of Speer's personality: the genius that made him indispensable to the German war machine, the conscience that drove him to repent, and the emotional wounds that made him susceptible to Hitler's lethal magnetism. Read as an inside account of the Third Reich, or as a revelatory unsparing yet compassionate study of the human capacity for evil, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth is a triumph. "Fascinating...Not only a major addition to our knowledge of the Third Reich, but a stunning attempt to understand the nature of good and evil."--Newsday "More than a biography...It also constitutes a perceptive re-examination of the mysterious appeal of Adolf Hitler."--San Francisco Chronicle

Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth

Historical

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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