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by V. A. C. [Vic] Gatrell (Author) "THE WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE WERE KILLED ON PUBLIC SCAFfolds have always been shrouded in euphemism ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New Ed edition (17 Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192853325
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192853325
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars morbidly fascinating., 1 May 2002
This book is as compelling as it is horrific as it draws the reader into the blood soaked wretchedness of 18th and 19th Century London. Using eyewitness accounts, pamphlets and broadsheets of the time Gattrell vividly depicts what life was like for those witnessing or awaiting execution.
With morbid fascination you learn of the appalling torture of condemned souls by bungling executioners, the blood-lust of the baying mob, and the sad lack of regard placed on human life.
This book enables you to almost feel what it must have been like to be at Tyburn or Newgate on hanging day, and how executions rose to almost epidemic proportions in the 1770's for a vast range of crimes that today would warrant no more than a period of community service.
Saddened and sickened, but always morbidly inrigued, this book once started is hard to put down. If you want to know what London was really like 200 years ago this goes some way to opening your eyes. Brillian read!
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