The Executioners Bible

by Steve Fielding

Book Overview

It has been just over 40 years since a gallows was last used in Great Britain, and the secrets behind the men who pulled the lever and dropped the condemned to their deaths are still shrouded in mystery. This account tells the story of the working-class men who carried out this profession until its abolition in the late 1960s. The hangman's rope was part of an exact science, and in their day, the men who undertook the job assumed the profiles of infamous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844546489
• ISBN13: 9781844546480
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: John Blake
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 7.7"