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A handbook on hanging
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780752460680
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The History Press, (01 May 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 228
- Weight
- 220 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 200 x 126 x 24 mm
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