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HISTORY OF TORTURE

Chilling history of torture from the middle ages to modern times by an author interested in the serious rather than the sensational side of his subject.

A serious history of an often sensationalised subject, Brian Innes’ study covers the millennia when torture was a legal and often used instrument of punishment and interrogation across the world, to its gradual disappearence from the official armouries of more civilised states. The 20th century saw a return of torture in more hideously refined forms under totalitarian regimes, and today it is still widely practised across the world. Innes describes methods and instruments of torture; and the political, social and religious context in which it was used by bodies like the Inquisition, the Gestapo and Stalin’s police as well as its use by the French army in Algeria. The author dev otes his final chapter to campaigns against torture, from individuals of conscience such as Voltaire and Gandhi to Amnesty International.

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Product Code:	10493
Author:	Brian Innes
ISBN:	9 781897 884300
Format:	192pp, b/w photographs and illustrations, hb. Published Price £19.99
Shipping Time:	This item is usually dispatched Next Day
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