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Discover book depositorys huge selection of geoffrey abbott books online. With his style of slight black humour,it makes a fascinating read. The book feels like a shorter and largely recycled version of abbotts execution. He wrote more than 24 books on torture and execution, appeared in numerous tv documentaries as consultant or executioner and, by invitation, wrote entries on torture and execution for the encyclopedia britannica. Aust wikipedia citation please see wikipedias template documentation for further.
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The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. Geoffrey abbott surveys the history of execution from ax to death by 24 cuts. Title page verso includes bibliographical references pages 337338 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. This book delivers what it claims,a guide to the ultimate penalty. Amazing true stories of execution blunders geoffrey. The book seems slanted towards european methods of execution, since many of the accounts abbott relates took place in europe. This book is a comprehensive reference on the methods of execution written by the former yeoman warden in the tower of london.