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Author : D. K. Holmberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946586032
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Blade written by D. K. Holmberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book An Executioner's sword written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. K. Holmberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946586025
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Apprentice written by D. K. Holmberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executioners search for justice, not vengeance. Finn questions why it can't be both.As apprentice to the master executioner, Finn struggles to understand his place in the city as he searches for truth in those sentenced. The job is more complicated than he ever imagined. He's proven his understanding of the basics, but for him to serve as an executioner-if that's what he wants-he needs mastery.Distracted by his search for a way to heal his still ailing mother despite the hegen magic, he finds himself at odds with the master executioner. When assigned his first solo case, he knows he needs to impress Meyer. An investigation into a fire that burned through an entire section of the city leads Finn to learn of a greater threat to Verendal-and the entire kingdom. When only Finn believes there's more to the fire, can he save the city or will his quest for vengeance finally lead to his downfall?
Author : William K. Luke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Spared by the Executioner's Sword written by William K. Luke and published by . This book was released on 1973* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen N. Fliegel
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810963764
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Arms & Armor written by Stephen N. Fliegel and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated and loaded with stellar examples of helmets, shields, swords, crossbows, firearms, and more from the magnificent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, this volume traces the history of European arms and armor from antiquity through the 18th century. Published to celebrate the recent refurbishment of the museum's popular Armor Court, Arms & Armor explores such themes as medieval warfare, tournaments, the process of making and decorating armor, and the Renaissance culture of arms. It also provides a discussion of various forms of weapons. The museum's finest works -- all newly restored -- were specially photographed for the book's large colorplates and searching details. In addition, paintings, tapestries, and engravings show how the objects were used and worn.
Author : Robert W. Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1837650365
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword written by Robert W. Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study takes the sword beyond it functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artifact and the broader meaning and significance it had to its bearer.
Author : D. K. Holmberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946586018
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Right written by D. K. Holmberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executioners don't solve crimes, they punish those who commit them. Or so Finn thought before apprenticed to one. Poverty-stricken Finn Jagger would give anything to heal his ailing mother. With his father imprisoned, Finn has joined a thieving crew to earn the money he needs to save her. When the latest heist turns to disaster and lands him on death row, Finn's future seems to be tied up with a noose. Until the king's executioner claims him as an apprentice. Finn soon learns an Executioner has far more power and greater responsibility than he'd ever realized. As inquisitor and detective, he must find the truth behind each sentence he carries out. It's a challenging job, but one that Finn is surprisingly good at. When the crew decides Finn could be the key to completing an impossible heist that threatens the kingdom, he's forced to choose between his new job and his old friends. And making the wrong choice could cost him everything.
Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497685540
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book War Against the Mafia written by Don Pendleton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : Laura E. Williams
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250128757
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Executioner's Daughter written by Laura E. Williams and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting tale of an executioner's daughter who struggles to find a different path in life Born into the family of an executioner, Lily has always been sheltered by her mother from the horrors of her father's occupation. But when her ailing mother takes a turn for the worse, Lily is suddenly thrust into the paralyzing role of executioner's assistant. Aside from preparing healing concoctions for the suffering and maimed, Lily must now accompany her father at the town executions, something she has never done before. Though she loves her father, the emotional burden of his disturbing profession is just too much for her to bear. Lily must find a way to change her destiny, no matter the consequences. Set in medieval England, this well-researched and beautifully written novel tells the story of one girl's fight to rise above her fate.
Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129370
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Faithful Executioner written by Joel F. Harrington and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation. Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.
Author : R. Ewart Oakeshott
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486292885
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Weapons written by R. Ewart Oakeshott and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British arthority on medieval weapons surveys European arms and armor from the Bronze Age to the time of triumph of gunpowder.
Author : Andrew M. Beresford
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004419381
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sacred Skin: The Legend of St. Bartholomew in Spanish Art and Literature written by Andrew M. Beresford and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Skin offers the first systematic evaluation of the cult of St. Bartholomew in Spain. Focusing primarily on flaying, its five chapters explore the paradoxes of hagiographic representation and their complex and ambivalent effect on the observer.
Author : Geoffrey Abbott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312325633
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The Executioner Always Chops Twice written by Geoffrey Abbott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A morbidly fascinating mixture of bungled executions ,strange last requests, and classic final one-liners from medieval times to the present day. Sometimes it's hard to be an executioner, trying to keep someone from popping up to make a quip when they should have spectacularly sunk without a trace. Or to be told that the condemned to the guillotine won't have a last drink for fear of "completely losing his head." The business of death can be absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these tales of the gruesome and frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker. 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 guillotine took three strokes to sever the neck of Isabeau Herman, the mob attempted to stone the executioner to death for cruelty? After the English hanged the pirate Captain Kidd they chained his body to a stake on the Thames River as a warning to seafarers? From the strange to the gruesome, from the weird to the completely unbelievable, The Executioner Always Chops Twice is popular history at its best: witty, lively, and wonderfully bizarre.
Author : Megan Bannen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006267417X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The Bird and the Blade written by Megan Bannen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping and tragic debut novel perfect for fans of The Wrath and the Dawn and Megan Whalen Turner. This young adult novel is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. The Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from author Megan Bannen. Enslaved in Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom . . . until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father across the vast Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead, Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks’ exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into an impossible love. Jinghua’s already dicey prospects take a downward turn when Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. As beautiful as she is cunning, Turandokht requires all potential suitors to solve three impossible riddles to win her hand—and if they fail, they die. Jinghua has kept her own counsel well, but with Khalaf’s kingdom—and his very life—on the line, she must reconcile the hard truth of her past with her love for a boy who has no idea what she’s capable of . . . even if it means losing him to the girl who’d sooner take his life than his heart.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848585128
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Public Executions written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul' -Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.16th-20th century Societies throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital punishment to their more unruly members. Although a number of countries across the globe still execute their own citizens, on occasion in public, the modern world in general views execution with distaste, and public execution doubly so. Public Executions documents the phenomenon of state-sanctioned killing from the ancient world to modern times, and in doing so, shows that although we regard the ancient practices with horror, they would have been equally bemused by our modern scruples, and would have regarded execution behind closed doors as little short of murder. Public Executions is a gruesomely enthralling account of public executions down through the ages and from around the world.
Author : Howard Caygill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472595440
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Kafka written by Howard Caygill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By challenging many of the assumptions, misguided presuppositions and even legends that have surrounded the legacy and reception of Franz Kafka's work during the 20th century, Howard Caygill provides us with a radical new way of reading Kafka. Kafka: In the Light of the Accident advances a unique philosophical interpretation via the pivotal theme of the accident, understood both philosophically and in a broader cultural context, that includes the philosophical and sociological basis of accident insurance and the understanding of the concepts of chance and necessity. Caygill reveals how Kafka's reception was governed by a series of accidents - from the order of Max Brod's posthumous publication of the novels and the correction of 'misprints', to many other posthumous editorial strategies. The focus on the accident casts light on the role of media in Kafka's work, particularly visual media and above all photography. By stressing the role of contingency in his authorship, Caygill also fundamentally questions the 20th century view of Kafka's work as 'kafkaesque'. Instead of a narration of domination, Kafka: In the Light of the Accident argues that Kafka's work is best read as a narration of defiance, one which affirms (often comically) the role of error and contingency in historical struggle. Kafka's defiance is situated within early 20th century radical culture, with particular emphasis lent to the roles of radical Judaism, the European socialist and feminist movements, and the subaltern histories of the United States and China.
Author : Sally Gardner
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 184255736X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Silver Blade written by Sally Gardner and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling adventure story set in the French revolution - gripping historical fiction at its best. With his friend Sido safely in England and the Terror at its height, Yann returns to France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But when Sido is kidnapped, he must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, and rescue her for a second time. Set against a vivid historical background, prize-winning author Sally Gardner brings to life the horrors of the French Revolution in this breath-taking adventure, complete with intrepid heroism and a touching love story. The page-turning sequel to Sally Gardner's novel of the French revolution, THE RED NECKLACE, and the conclusion to Yann and Sido's story.
