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Amazing True Stories of Execution Blunders

Name: Amazing True Stories of Execution Blunders
Price: 5.99 EUR
Author: Geoffrey Abbott
ISBN: 9781783721702

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Geoffrey Abbott

Summersdale
Paru le : 04/06/2005

The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly... > Lire la suite

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The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker at the hands of lamentably inept executioners. With black and white illustrations, this book brings together a mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests and classic one-liners from medieval times to the present day.

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Date de parution : 04/06/2005
Editeur : Summersdale
ISBN : 1-78372-170-7
EAN : 9781783721702
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Geoffrey Abbott

Geoffrey Abbott served in the RAF for 35 years before becoming a 'Beefeater' at the Tower of London. He wrote more than 24 books on torture and execution, appeared in numerous TV documentaries as consultant or executioner and, by invitation, wrote entries on torture and execution for the Encyclopedia Britannica. He once stood on the 'drop' trapdoors in the execution chamber of Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow (as a fact-finding author, not a convicted criminal!) and also experienced having a noose placed around his neck by a professional hangman - the late Sydney Dernley, a man endowed with a great, if macabre, sense of humour!