Whores of the Devil: Witch-Hunts and Witch-Trials
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Book Overview
In his latest book, bestselling author Erik Durschmied looks into the history of the witch delusion and the cruel butchers who hunted and executed so-called witches, from the Middle Ages to modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0752456466
ISBN13:9780752456461
Release Date:April 2010
Publisher:History Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 4.6" x 7.7"
Customer Reviews
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Another Masterly-Well Written History Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Although I do have a passing interest in the subject matter of this book, I might not have purchased this one, had it not been for its author. I have read several of this author's books and they are extremely well-written. This book is definitely no exception. Although, as can be expected, the author focuses on witches and witch hunts mainly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there is a chapter covering the mid-twentieth century Nazi period. As usual, the writing is clear, engaging, breathlessly exciting in places and occasionally tongue-in-cheek in the way certain things and events are described. This makes this masterpiece very difficult to put down. The descriptions given of the methods used to torture supposed witches, and their effects on the human body, are very graphic; so, no punches are pulled, as it were. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in this dark chapter in human history, or even in history in general, as told by a master raconteur.
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