"RACK, ROPE AND RED-HOT PINCERS: A History of Torture and its Instruments"

by Abbott, Geoffrey

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Brockhampton Press. 1993. "Laminated boards in clipped and torn dust jacket. Remainder stamp.. Else, very good". "243pp. [+ 16pp. b/w plates], chronology, bibliography, index. A comprehensive history of the tools and methods of torture, including suspensions, cuttings and lacerations (The Iron Maiden); to thumscrews and brandings, water tortures, flagellation, etc.; also, public torture as spectator sport, unusual torments, and various methods of execution. A thorough view from an author uniquely qualified - a former Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London."

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