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monumental in the subtlety and richness of the argument ... a rare combination of pellucid clarity and passion that carries the reader on to the final chapter without a single longeur. (John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph )
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"monumental in the subtlety and richness of the argument ... a rare combination of pellucid clarity and passion that carries the reader on to the final chapter without a single longeur."
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[a] classic study (The Sunday Times Culture Magazine )
There is plenty to incite horror, but the cleverness of the book is the way it puts the English way of execution into a political context (Jeremy Paxman, Independent )
monumental in the subtlety and richness of the argument ... a rare combination of pellucid clarity and passion that carries the reader on to the final chapter without a single longeur. (John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph )
A quite outstanding book, moving, perceptive ... richly imaginative. (Linda Colley, Observer )
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THE WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE WERE KILLED ON PUBLIC SCAFfolds have always been shrouded in euphemism. Read the first page
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