Awfully Ancient: Banished, Beheaded or Boiled in Oil: A hair-raising history of crime and punishment throughout the ages!

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Travel through history to discover the grim, gruesome and downright gut-churning methods of punishment societies employed in the past.

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It was not fiction. I liked Queen Elisabeth the best. The whole book gave me a whole load of facts. I liked the Rack.

Chief Ice-T Postage-Stamp 28.07.2021

It was gruesome!

Anonymous 14.08.2017

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