What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, And 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death
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A gruesomely hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the ages
In this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as “gone west” or “drawn a blank.” Covering everything from the preparation of the victim to the disposal of the body, What a Way to Go is everything you ever wanted to know about the ultimate penalty---and a lot you never thought to ask.
It includes such hair-raising categories as: Sewn in an Animal’s Belly: A living person is sewn into the belly of an animal and left to die The Spanish Donkey: This method of torture consisted of seating a victim on top of a wall that resembled an inverted V with weights attached to the ankles, the weights slowly increased until the victim’s body split in two. Iron Chair: The victim is tied to an iron armchair and pushed nearer and nearer to a blazing fire. What a Way to Go is a unique and fascinating look at the grim and gritty history of sanctioned death
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Geoffrey Abbott served for many years as a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London. Author of nineteen books and contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, he has made numerous television appearances.
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