Faithful Executioner

Faithful Executioner

AngličtinaEbook
Harrington, Joel F.
Random House
EAN: 9781448129379
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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.
EAN 9781448129379
ISBN 1448129370
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavateľ Random House
Dátum vydania 2. mája 2013
Stránky 320
Jazyk English
Krajina United Kingdom
Autori Harrington, Joel F.