Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments by Geoffrey Abbott

Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments

Geoffrey Abbott

243 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime challenging dark informative slow-paced
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This bloodcurdling account of instruments of torture through the ages includes descriptions of cells too cramped to allow for lying down, skull crushers, the pendulum, the gridiron, and other gruesome devices.

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