The A-Z of Punishment and Torture Download

Author: Irene Thompson
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The A-Z of Punishment and Torture

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Who were the Maccabees? A pop group? Or a mother and her seven sons who suffered racking, skinning, burning, amputation and having their tongues pulled out and fried?

And what was foot roasting? A way of keeping warm in the winter? Or a technique from the Spanish Inquisition that involved coating the prisoner's feet in fat and toasting them over hot coals?

From Amputation to Zero Tolerance, 'The A-Z of Punishment & Torture' is a grisly yet mesmerising compendium of the horrors inflicted on the human body over the centuries.

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