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The Executioner Always Chops Twice
The Executioner Always Chops Twice
Author: Geoffrey Abbott
A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. — Did you know: — * When Sir Thomas More was ordered to position his head on the block, he said "Though you have warrant to cut off my head, you have none to cut off my beard" — * When the guill...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739475386
ISBN-10: 073947538X
Publication Date: 2002
Pages: 239
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Bloopers, blunders, and famous last words
This book is chock full historical ways to meet your maker - by axe, burned at the stake, guillotine, hanging, electrocution, broken on the wheel, and much, much, more.
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