History Of An Executioner

Author : Clancy McGilligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1881163660

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History of an Executioner by Clancy McGilligan Pdf

Fiction. For years, the executioner has faithfully performed his duties in a provincial corner of the Republic, enduring the disdain of his fellow citizens. After an uproar over a botched execution in the distant capital, his work is suspended, and he begins disrupting the routines that have defined his life. When rebels attack the town, he must decide whether to resume his old ways. "HISTORY OF AN EXECUTIONER is a triumph of empathy, imagination, and lucidity. A haunting examination of a humble, civil-servant killer whose lonely existence has arrived at a crossroads. Is he the last of his kind? Would he even know how to be his own man? Could there be any escape from this life of blood and gloom? This first book by Clancy McGilligan truly swept me away--a stunning debut from a spectacularly talented writer."--Skip Horack "In powerful prose, McGilligan tells a fully inventive and engaging story. You'll want to linger with the sentences and turn the pages. This is a haunting and hauntingly atmospheric novella."--Olivia Clare "With his first novella, HISTORY OF AN EXECUTIONER, Clancy McGilligan has written a dystopian tale with flawless control, compression, and, in the end, compassion. The story is, by turns, hopeless and hopeful, passionless and passionate, and always, always, interesting. I could not put it down."--Richard Wiley "HISTORY OF AN EXECUTIONER takes a thoughtful look at the moments that disrupt normalcy. The familiar rhythms of the protagonist's life are replaced with questions about nation, love, and purpose. Clancy McGilligan creates an executioner who grapples with layers of aftermath and the ways these confine and liberate. This imaginative debut examines the meaning of consequence, showing how both subtle and dramatic changes create new challenges and pathways."--Ravi Howard

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497685543

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War Against the Mafia by Don Pendleton Pdf

The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Author : Howard Engel
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504031493

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Lord High Executioner by Howard Engel Pdf

A grisly tour of hangings, electrocutions, beheadings—and other state-sanctioned deaths that are part of the long history of the death penalty. In Lord High Executioner, award-winning writer Howard Engel traces the traditions of capital punishment from medieval England and early Canada to the present-day United States. Throughout “civilized” history, executioners employed on behalf of the kingdom, republic, or dictatorship have beheaded, chopped, stabbed, choked, gassed, electrocuted, or beaten criminals to death—and Engel doesn’t shy away from the gritty details of the executioner’s lifestyle, focusing on the paragons, buffoons, and sadists of the dark profession. Packed with all-too-true stories, from hapless hangings to butchered beheadings, this historically accurate look at the executioner’s gruesome work makes for a thoroughly gripping read.

Author : James Berry
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547604471

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My Experiences as an Executioner by James Berry Pdf

"My Experiences as an Executioner" by James Berry presents a chilling and unflinchingly honest account of Berry's time as an executioner, providing readers with a gripping glimpse into the dark and complex world of capital punishment. Through his candid revelations and introspective reflections, Berry navigates the moral and ethical dilemmas he faced in his role, shedding light on the profound impact it had on his psyche. His narrative unearths the haunting realities of life and death decisions, offering readers a unique perspective on the complexities of justice, morality, and the weight of one's actions. As readers delve into Berry's experiences, they are confronted with thought-provoking questions about the nature of punishment, the human capacity for empathy, and the long-lasting emotional scars left by his grim profession. This book serves as a poignant exploration of the human condition and the somber consequences of society's pursuit of justice.

Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781448129379

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The Faithful Executioner by Joel F. Harrington Pdf

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation. Through examination of Frantz’s exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.

Author : Franz Schmidt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781629149769

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A Hangman's Diary by Franz Schmidt Pdf

From 1573 to 1617, Master Franz Schmidt was the executioner for the towns of Bamberg and Nuremberg. During that span, he personally executed more than 350 people while keeping a journal throughout his career. A Hangman’s Diary is not only a collection of detailed writings by Schmidt about his work, but also an account of criminal procedure in Germany during the Middle Ages. With analysis and explanation, editor Albrecht Keller and translators C. Calvert and A. W. Gruner have put together a masterful tome that sets the scene of execution day and puts you in Master Franz Schmidt’s shoes as he does his duty for his country. Originally published more than eighty years ago, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Schmidt’s executions, which include hangings, beheadings, and other methods of murder, as well as explanations of each crime and the reason for the punishment. An incredible classic, A Hangman’s Diary is more than a history lesson; it shows the true anarchy that inhabited our world only a few hundred years ago. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752466620

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Execution by Simon Webb Pdf

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. This book explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history.

Author : Josef Svátek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1430312351

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The Executioner of Prague by Josef Svátek Pdf

This historical novel is based on actual events. The story takes the reader to Prague when the city was one of the foremost European capitals. Europe was about to break into the Thirty Years' War, a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants that devastated the continent more than any other war. By the nature of his profession, Master Jan MydláÅ, the Old Town Executioner, finds himself in the center of historical events. He shares his experience from behind the scenes, of court intrigues and manipulation of justice. While Master Jan's memoirs offer an intriguing account of medieval law enforcement and the manners and values of medieval society, his observations of human nature are timeless. For the first time ever The Executioner of Prague is available in English.

Author : Micheál Ó Siochrú
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571241212

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God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú Pdf

In a century of unrelenting, bloody warfare and religious persecution in Europe, Cromwell was, in many ways, a product of his times. As commander-in-chief of the army in Ireland, however, the responsibilities for the excesses of the military must be laid firmly at his door, while the harsh nature of the post-war settlement also bears his imprint.

Author : Geoffrey Abbott
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : 0312065590

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Lords of the Scaffold by Geoffrey Abbott Pdf

Author : Brian J. Bailey
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001740530

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Hangmen of England by Brian J. Bailey Pdf

Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813938714

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The Executioner's Journal by Joel F. Harrington Pdf

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or disfigured hundreds more. The remarkable number of victims, as well as the officially sanctioned context in which they suffered at Schmidt’s hands, was the story of Joel Harrington’s much-discussed book The Faithful Executioner. The foundation of that celebrated work was Schmidt's own journal--notable not only for the shocking story it told but, in an age when people rarely kept diaries, for its mere existence. Available now in Harrington’s new translation, this fascinating document provides the modern reader with a rare firsthand perspective on the thoughts and experiences of an executioner who routinely carried out acts of state brutality yet remained a revered member of the local community, widely respected for his piety, steadfastness, and popular healing. Based on a long-lost manuscript thought to be the most faithful to the original journal, this modern English translation is fully annotated and includes an introduction providing historical context as well as a biographical portrait of Schmidt himself. The executioner appears to us not as the frightening brute we might expect but as a surprisingly thoughtful, complex person with a unique voice, and in these pages his world emerges as vivid and unforgettable. Studies in Early Modern German History

Author : Riley Frank
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318979439

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The Executioner by Riley Frank Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Jane Hardstaff
Publisher : Egmont USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781606845622

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The Executioner's Daughter by Jane Hardstaff Pdf

A thrilling historical adventure (with Common Core connections) set in the underbelly of the Tower of London and on the Thames in Tudor times.Perfect for fans of Matthew J. Kirby's The Clockwork Three and F.E. Higgins'sThe Black Book of Secrets. Basket Girl, When you're dead Who will carry All the heads? The crowds at the Tower of London love a good execution. As the basket girl, it's Moss's job to catch the heads that her father chops off. It's a life she longs to leave behind, but she, too, is a prisoner and there's no escaping the Tower walls. Or is there? A hidden tunnel takes her to the shores of the great River Thames, where she meets Salter, a river rat who teaches her how to survive with her wits, and the occasional theft. But there's a reason Moss's father insisted she never go near the river--a deal struck long ago--and now payment is due. . . . Jane Hardstaff's The Executioner's Daughter is a thrilling historical adventure with a hint of a ghost story set amid the glamour and grime of Tudor London during the reign of Henry VIII. Praise for The Executioner's Daughter: Longlisted for the 2015 Oxfordshire Book Award "Hardstaff has a real talent for creating a sense of place and drama . . . and her descriptions of the wretchedness of life on the river and a child's lowly lot are worth locking yourself up for an afternoon's reading pleasure." --The Times (London) "This notable debut mixes vivid history with supernatural adventure, and from its dark depths friendship, forgiveness, and parental love rise to the surface." --The Sunday Times

Author : Kazimierz Moczarski
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Generals
ISBN : UOM:39015005661015

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Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski Pdf

"Relying largely on Stroop's own words ... Moczarski recreates the chain of events which caused a nondescript German youth, the son of a provincial policeman, to rise to the top of the Nazi hierarchy; become part of the inner circle of Hitler, Himmler, and Göring; wield ... power in Czechoslovakia, Soviet Russia, and Greece; and mastermind Warsaw's "Final solution"--Jacket.