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Author : Walt Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Hangman's Heritage written by Walt Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 1972* with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen King-Aribisala
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143526936
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Hangman's Game written by Karen King-Aribisala and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘They wanted me dead. I don’t mean physical death. I’m not afraid of that any more ... The death they wanted for me was spiritual – I think that’s what I mean – to have me beset by fears, doubts; the insecurities of action and word that take their toll and make you live a life of death.’
Author : Jeffrey K. Olick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226626385
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book In the House of the Hangman written by Jeffrey K. Olick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. Political leaders and intellectuals on both sides of the conflict debated whether support for National Socialism tainted Germany's entire population and thus discredited the nation's history and culture. The tremendous challenge that Allied officials and German thinkers faced as the war closed, then, was how to limn a postwar German identity that accounted for National Socialism without irrevocably damning the idea and character of Germany as a whole. In the House of the Hangman chronicles this delicate process, exploring key debates about the Nazi past and German future during the later years of World War II and its aftermath. What did British and American leaders think had given rise to National Socialism, and how did these beliefs shape their intentions for occupation? What rhetorical and symbolic tools did Germans develop for handling the insidious legacy of Nazism? Considering these and other questions, Jeffrey K. Olick explores the processes of accommodation and rejection that Allied plans for a new German state inspired among the German intelligentsia. He also examines heated struggles over the value of Germany's institutional and political heritage. Along the way, he demonstrates how the moral and political vocabulary for coming to terms with National Socialism in Germany has been of enduring significance—as a crucible not only of German identity but also of contemporary thinking about memory and social justice more generally. Given the current war in Iraq, the issues contested during Germany's abjection and reinvention—how to treat a defeated enemy, how to place episodes within wider historical trajectories, how to distinguish varieties of victimhood—are as urgent today as they were sixty years ago, and In the House of the Hangman offers readers an invaluable historical perspective on these critical questions.
Author : Colin Duncan
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845026225
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Hangman's Brae written by Colin Duncan and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the French guillotine. The stories of the men who enforced the law and meted out sentences to the ne'er-do-wells who broke it can be just as interesting and memorable as those of the criminals and Norman Adams introduces the reader to some of them. Here you'll find some real characters such as the Aberdeenshire sheriff and criminal officer who always got his man - once spending two chilling nights chained to a brutal murderer and rapist. And it wasn't just hangings that these men had to perform - their grisly work also involved execution by beheading and drowning, often with some witch-burning for good measure. The many true-crime cases in this book shed new light on just how violent and bloody the north-east of Scotland's past was.
Author : Lorna Poplak
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459738233
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Drop Dead written by Lorna Poplak and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-07-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Confederation in 1867 until the abolition of the death penalty in 1976, 704 people were hanged in Canada. The book examines how trial, conviction, and punishment operated then, and the relevance of capital punishment today. It profiles notable individuals: victims, murderers, judges, jurors, the wrongfully convicted ... and the hangman.
Author : Franz Schmidt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629149764
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book A Hangman's Diary written by Franz Schmidt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career. A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about his work, but also an account of criminal procedure in Germany during the Middle Ages. With analysis and explanation, editor Albrecht Keller and translators C. Calvert and A. W. Gruner have put together a masterful tome that sets the scene of execution day and puts you in Master Franz Schmidt’s shoes as he does his duty for his country. Originally published more than eighty years ago, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Schmidt’s executions, which include hangings, beheadings, and other methods of murder, as well as explanations of each crime and the reason for the punishment. An incredible classic, A Hangman’s Diary is more than a history lesson; it shows the true anarchy that inhabited our world only a few hundred years ago. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Philip George Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838631072
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Our Dramatic Heritage: The Golden Age written by Philip George Hill and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-volume series that surveys European drama from ancient Greece to the mid-twentieth century.
Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054774501X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (477 download)
Download or read book The Hangman's Daughter written by Oliver Pötzsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.
Author : Mike Wales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780523421254
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Hangman's Legacy written by Mike Wales and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dion Paul
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450016669
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Stone written by Dion Paul and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : HANGMAN.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Hangman's Last Will and Testament: with His Legacy to the Nine Worthies, Viz., Col. Lambert, Creed, Etc. [A Song.]. written by HANGMAN. and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Blackwood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525555811
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Year of the Hangman written by Gary Blackwood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776, the rebellion of the American colonies against British rule was crushed. Now, in 1777-the year of the hangman-George Washington is awaiting execution, Benjamin Franklin's banned rebel newspaper, Liberty Tree, has gone underground, and young ne'er-do-well Creighton Brown, a fifteen-year-old Brit, has just arrived in the colonies. Having been shipped off against his will, with nothing but a distance for English authorities, Creighton befriends Franklin, and lands a job with his print shop. But the English general expects the spoiled yet loyal Creighton to spy on Franklin. As battles unfold and falsehoods are exposed, Creighton must decide where his loyalties lie...a choice that could determine the fate of a nation.
Author : Frederic Bean
Publisher : Walker & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802741172
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Hangman's Legacy written by Frederic Bean and published by Walker & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A letter hidden in the boot of a stranger hanging from a tree on the Barclay Ranch leads Hobart Shedd, Tip Giles, and the other cowboys on a quest for buried loot
Author : Ambrose Bierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The monk and the hangman's daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from "Fun." Aesopus emendatus. Old saws with new teeth. Fables in rhyme written by Ambrose Bierce and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1844688402
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Britain's Most Notorious Hangmen written by Stephen Wade and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking history of Britain’s executioners—from the seventeenth court of King Charles II to the UK’s last official hangman of the twentieth century. In 1663, Jack Ketch delighted in his profession and gained notoriety not only because of those he executed—dukes and lords—but for how often he botched the job. Centuries later, in 1965, after nearly six hundred trips to the gallows, Albert Pierrepoint retired as Britain’s longest-running executioner. Between them are three hundred years in a fascinating history of crime, and the “turn-off men” who handled the penalties—many of them criminals themselves, doing the grim work to save their own necks. Britain’s Most Notorious Hangmen tells the stories of the men who plied their deadly trade at Tyburn tree or at the scaffolds in the prison yards across the country, including such notable “neck-stretchers” as Throttler Smith and the celebrated James Billington. But true-crime historian Stephen Wade explores the lives and crimes of many of the infamous killers that were hanged, as well. He also sheds light on the changing social norms of the country, and the moral dilemmas that arose for hangmen tasked with performing what was once considered the most crowd-pleasing free “entertainment” ever offered to the public.
Author : Taona D. Chiveneko
Publisher : Chiveneko Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 0991852400
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Hangman's Replacement written by Taona D. Chiveneko and published by Chiveneko Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had to interview the candidates for a country's new hangman, what questions would you ask them? If your family was on the verge of starvation, and becoming a hangman was the only job available, would you apply? If you were hired, what would you do if the prisoners looked like your loved ones? If you knew that another good man was taking the job out of desperation, would you do anything to prevent him from getting it? What if that man's recruitment would somehow guarantee your own survival, would you encourage his candidacy? All these questions were asked of people who never thought they would find themselves in such a position, until they became mired in the chaos surrounding the hangman's replacement.
Author : Henry Oster
Publisher : Higgins Bay Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780578144450
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (444 download)
Download or read book The Kindness of the Hangman written by Henry Oster and published by Higgins Bay Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young German boy's true story of tragedy and triumph, from the depths of despair in Auschwitz and Buchenwald to an extraordinary life in America.
