Author: Terry Deary
Title: Cruel Crimes And Painful Punishments (Horrible Histories)
Description: Scholastic Hippo 2002 Hardback, 100pp. Cruel Crime and Painful Punishment is crammed full of 7,000 yearsoflaw-makers and law-breakers with a rogue's gallery of pirates,witch-finders,highwaymen, torturers, traitors and tyrants.Want to know:Who was sentenced to death-by coffee?Where you could be whipped for flying a kite?Why a cockerel was burnt at the stake?Read on for horrible hangings, putrid prisons and terrible transportation.Find out the truth about brutal school beatings, test yourlocal policeman, and see if you can escape beheading in the terribleTower of London game.History has never been so horrible!. (ISBN: 9780439979276). Good.

Keywords: Childrens, History, True Crime9780439979276 9780439979276


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