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A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution - Softcover

Duff, Charles

 
9780752460680: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0752460684 ISBN 13: 9780752460680
Verlag: The History Press Ltd, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of bloodlust mobs and the political expedients of the great. A classic satire, admired by Bertholt Brecht and Dylan Thomas, Duff’s polemic makes it clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be – justice, vengeance, a deterrent – it is certainly killing.

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Verlag
The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0752460684
ISBN 13 
9780752460680
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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