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An illustrated book of torture devices used to inflict severe pain on others, from historical accounts to present day atrocities. Throughout our history, torture has been used as a political tool, interrogation, punishment and coercsion. Governments and organized religions have and still do, torture people regularly, often hidden from the public. Dozens of different torture devices are mentioned, and photographed, that will shock you. Torture devices include boots, castration, electric carpets, flaying, head crushers, keelhauling, knee splitters, racks, scalping, spiders, toe wedgers, tramp chairs, waterboarding, whirligigs and dozens more... truly a book of horror.
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