Female Executions: Martyrs, Murderesses and Madwomen - Couverture souple

Abbott, Geoffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849534934 ISBN 13 : 9781849534932

Editeur : Summersdale Publishers, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber. You have been warned. From Nan Hereford, the cloaked highwayman who held up coaches with just her fists, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, Female Executions illuminates history s darker periods with a detailed and factual approach. Grimly funny and darkly gripping, interspersed with unusual last requests and black and white illustrations throughout, this is history at its most morbidly fascinating

Biographie de l'auteur :

Geoffrey Abbot served in the RAF in World War Two before becoming a beefeater at the Tower of London. He has written more than twenty-four books on torture and execution, including Lipstick on the Noose 978 1 84024 367 3, has appeared in numerous TV documentaries as consultant or executioner and by invitation has written entries on torture and execution for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Summersdale Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849534934
• ISBN 13: 9781849534932
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304