What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott | The StoryGraph

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What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott

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What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

Geoffrey Abbott

352 pages • first pub 2006 • 4 editions

nonfiction historical history dark informative slow-paced

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A gruesomely, hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the agesIn this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the mac...

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What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death by Geoffrey Abbott

What a Way to Go: The Guillotine, the Pendulum, the Thousand Cuts, the Spanish Donkey, and 66 Other Ways of Putting Someone to Death

Geoffrey Abbott

352 pages • 2006

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A gruesomely, hilarious and fascinating pop-history account of methods of execution from around the world and through the agesIn this wickedly humorous book, Geoffrey Abbott describes the effectiveness of instruments of torture and reveals the mac...

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