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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution (1994)di Geoffrey Abbott
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Geoffrey Abbott delights in titalating his readers with lurid tales designed to elicit the maximum sqirm factor. He usually avoids straying into technical inaccuracy. But somehow one comes away from reading Abbott with a sense of mistrepresentation by ommission. Still, at a primitive level, he can be great fun. As a former Yeoman of the Guard at the Tower of London, I bet he was a HUGE hit among the customers. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Execution' is a gruesomely fascinating account of methods of judicial execution from around the world and through the ages, and includes such hair-raising categories as death by cannibalism, being sewn into an animal's belly and a thousand cuts. In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes the instruments used and their effectiveness, and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as 'gone west' or 'drawn a blank', as well as the jargon of the underworld. From the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body, 'Execution' answers all the questions you are ever Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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