The Case of Mary Bell

The Case of Mary Bell

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780712662970
Untertitel:
A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered
Genre:
Krimis, Thriller & Horror
Autor:
Gitta Sereny
Herausgeber:
Random House UK
Anzahl Seiten:
352
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.02.1995
ISBN:
978-0-7126-6297-0

What kind of child murders another child? First published in 1972, The Case of Mary Bell still stirs controversy today and is a work of extraordinary and compassionate journalism.

Informationen zum Autor Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. She gave hundreds of lectures in schools and colleges in America and, when the war ended, she worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. In 1949 she married the American Vogue photographer Don Honeyman and settled in London, where they brought up a son and a daughter and where she began her career as a journalist. Her journalistic work was of great variety but focussed particularly on the Third Reich and troubled children. She wrote mainly for the Daily Telegraph Magazine , the Sunday Times , The Times , the Independent and the Independent on Sunday Review . She also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. Her books include: The Medallion , a novel; The Invisible Children , on child prostitution; Into That Darkness ; and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012. Klappentext Gitta Sereny is of Hungarian-Austrian extraction and is trilingual in English, French and German. During the Second World War she became a social worker, caring for war-damaged children in France. She gave hundreds of lectures in schools and colleges in America and, when the war ended, she worked as a Child Welfare Officer in UNRRA displaced persons' camps in Germany. In 1949 she married the American Vogue photographer Don Honeyman and settled in London, where they brought up a son and a daughter and where she began her career as a journalist. Her journalistic work was of great variety but focussed particularly on the Third Reich and troubled children. She wrote mainly for the Daily Telegraph Magazine , the Sunday Times , The Times , the Independent and the Independent on Sunday Review . She also contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines around the world. Her books include: The Medallion , a novel; The Invisible Children , on child prostitution; Into That Darkness ; and a biographical examination of Albert Speer. Gitta Sereny died in June 2012. Zusammenfassung In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys;...

Vorwort
What kind of child murders another child? First published in 1972, The Case of Mary Bell still stirs controversy today and is a work of extraordinary and compassionate journalism.

Zusammenfassung
In December 1968 two girls who lived next door to each other - Mary, aged eleven, and Norma, thirteen - stood before a criminal court in Newcastle, accused of strangling two little boys;


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