Books

Reviews of entire books – brochures, monographs, anthologies.

The Nazi Doctors

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton, New York: Basic Books Inc., 1986. xiii+561 pages. $19.95 The Nazi Doctors is divided into three main parts entitled “Life Unworthy of Life” (pp. 22-144; Chapters 1-6), “Auschwitz: The Racial Cure” (pp. 148-414; Chapter 7-18) and “The Psychology of Genocide” (pp. 417-500;…

Days of Remembrance

The front cover also bears the inscriptions: “This book was produced with the assistance and cooperation of the International Center for Holocaust Studies of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith./OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.” U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 (207-121-814/80028). 96 pages, 27.6 x 21 centimeters. 27 illustrations plus two maps. Although reviewers customarily…

The Execution Protocol

The Execution Protocol: Inside America's Capital Punishment Industry, by Stephen Trombley. New York: Anchor Books, 1993. Softcover. 342 pages. $11.95. ISBN 0-385-47178-5. Stephen Trombley's volume is a valuable overview of the American system of capital punishment. Trombley has conducted extensive interviews with those on both sides of what he calls “America's Capital Punishment Industry.” The…

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