Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments
Abbott, Geoffrey
ISBN 10: 0747239843 ISBN 13: 9780747239840
Editore: Headline Book Pub Ltd, 1993
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"Little Ease" - a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. "The Duke of Exeter's Daughter" and "Skeffington's Gyves" - two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. This text offers an account of instruments of torture through the ages.
Informazioni sull?autore: On leaving the RAF in 1974, Geoffrey Abbott became a member of the Body of Yeoman Warders and lived with his wife in HM Tower of London. He now lives in the Lake District, where he enjoys writing, visiting castles and being Mace Bearer to the Mayor of Kendal.
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Titolo: Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of...
Casa editrice: Headline Book Pub Ltd
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good