American Hangman: A Biography of Amos Lunt, the Executioner of San Quentin, Tobin T. Buhk

Автор: Franks Rachel
Название: An Uncommon Hangman: The Life and Deaths of Robert `Nosey Bob` Howard
ISBN: 1742237347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742237343
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This is the story of Robert Rice Howard (1832–1906), the man known as Nosey Bob. It is also an important chapter in the story of the changing attitudes towards capital punishment in Australia, as the country transformed from generally enthusiastic spectators at executions into campaigners for the abolition of the death penalty. These interconnected stories are told through the men, and the one woman, who met Nosey Bob under the worst possible circumstances between his first employment by the Department of Justice in 1876 and his retirement as the executioner for New South Wales in 1904.Once a household name, Nosey Bob was the most infamous public servant in Sydney: a noseless hangman who sparked fear and fascination everywhere he went. Howard has only ever been cast as an extra in someone else's play, making frightening appearances in a felon's final scene on the gallows. Here, for the first time, he has taken the lead.

Автор: Jansen, Marc Petrov, Nikita
Название: Stalin`s loyal executioner
ISBN: 0817929029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817929022
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Описание: Drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, Stalin`s Loyal Executioner chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.

Автор: Lunt
Название: A Woman`S Wartime Journal
ISBN: 1469607786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469607788
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Описание: Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Union army on January 1, 1864. While she worries about the arrival of Sherman's troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path, she records stories of visits by local raiders posing as U.S. soldiers and the sleepless nights she has spent watching fires on the horizon. Despite Lunt's efforts to hide her valuable possessions, which include sending her mules into the woods, dividing her stores of meat among the slaves, and burying the silver, the passing Union troops raid her house and plantation and take her slaves with them. They also set fire to cotton bales in her barn, but the blaze burns out before spreading, largely sparing Lunt's property the widespread destruction suffered by neighboring plantations. In her last entries, dated December 1865, Lunt writes optimistically about the recovery of her farm, her new sharecropping system, and the first cheerful Christmas in years.

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