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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold

8 reviews
Geoffrey Abbott

St. Martin's Press, 2004

Michelle's review
This book was really interesting and informative. I had no idea all that went on.

Samurai Executioner, Vol. 2: Two Bodies, Two Minds

5 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2004

Excellent work from the creators of Lone Wolf and Cub
Ok, sanitized Sailor Moon for the American market this is not. This is a look into the world that existed over 300 years ago in feudal Japan. A world where one's rank in society determined the likelihood of summary execution right in the street for seeming minor offenses such as bumping into the wrong person. Applying our modern day sense of values to this world is senseless and one must ...

God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
Dr. Micheal O Siochru

Faber and Faber, 2008

Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. The massacre of thousands of soldiers and civilians by the New Model Army at both Drogheda and Wexford in 1649 must rank among the greatest atrocities in Anglo-Irish history: a tale that makes decidedly uncomfortable reading for those keen to focus on Cromwell's undoubted military and political ...

The Executioner's Song

77 reviews
Norman Mailer

Vintage, 1998

A Brilliant, Colossal Project That is Worth Every Page
Norman Mailer's book "The Executioner's Song" made me a fan of journalistic fiction. He was capable of using elements from a journalist's world while incorporating the necessary elements to turn this epic project into a beautiful, insightful novel. This combination he used to perfection as he was able to tell the story of Gary Gilmore, the first man to face the death sentence since its ...

Samurai Executioner Vol. 1: When the Demon Knife Weeps (Samurai Executioner)

7 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2004

Samurai Executioner
Dark Horse Manga, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics, has recently begun publishing English translations of Samurai Executioner, written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Goseki Kojima ($9.95 US, available in the UK). Koike and Kojima are best known as the creators of the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Lone Wolf and Cub series (also published by Dark Horse). Available for the first time ...

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

201 reviews
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Vintage, 1997

A Study That Can't Be Ignored -- but the Kindle Version Needs Work
"Hitler's Willing Executioners" is without doubt a highly important work that no one wishing to understand 20th-century history can afford to ignore. In this review, however, I will focus on the Kindle version. The Kindle version has significant problems. First, the footnotes are not linked (i.e., you can't click on a footnote number and be taken to it from the main text). Every serious ...

Samurai Executioner Volume 4 (Portrait of Death)

2 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2005

An amazing turn in a fantastic series
The Samurai Executioner series takes a sharp turn in Volume 4, and Kazuo Koike brings us a diverse, truly fascinating and sometimes harrowing set of tales. None of these stories is in the simple "bringing a criminal to justice" theme like we saw in most of the earlier tales. In many ways, the stakes are bigger for our hero, Yamada Asaemon. The first story, "An Offering of Cut Mochi", opens ...

Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics)

69 reviews
Irvin D. Yalom

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000

The dark and sometimes disturbing world of psychology
This excellent book takes an in depth look at the dark and sometimes disturbing world of psychology. Even the therapist sometimes doesn't know what's going on as he takes the journey into the windmills of the mind...very well written and very informative and sometimes witty. The book also provides insight into humanity as a whole.

The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge

7 reviews
Nic Dunlop

Walker & Company, 2006

Comrade Duch unmasked
Nic Dunlop's first-rate detective story on the trail of Pol Pot's chief executioner, the notorious Comrade Duch, is a fascinating journey into Cambodia's recent bloody history. Through a series of testimonies by Duch's family members and people who knew him, Dunlop builds up a compelling picture of this former teacher turned mass murderer, whilst also giving us a running commentary on the ...

Mack Bolan: The Executioner #2 August 1993
Don and Linda Pendleton

Innovation, 1993

Samurai Executioner Volume 9 (Samurai Executioner)

1 review
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2006

More meditations on facing life and death from Koike & Kojima
Slowly and almost surely the volumes of Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima's "Samurai Executioner" series are being released in this country. The delays are on the order of months and when each new one arrives it takes more restraint than I have to not read all of the stories quickly. I picked up on this series because after reading through "Lone Wolf & Cub" twice from start to finish I needed more ...

Samurai Executioner, Vol. 6

1 review
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2005

There are those who would stay the Samurai Executioner from his appointed tasks
"Shinko the Kappa," Volume 6 in the collected "Samurai Executioner" tales of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, continues our look at crime and punishment in Edo-period Japan. There are six stories in this particular volume and they represent an interesting combination of those that deal with intriguing ways of trying to prevent Kubikiri Asa, better known as Decapitator Asaemon, from carrying out an ...

Conversations with an Executioner

5 reviews
Kazimierz Moczarski

Prentice-Hall, 1981

Mass Murder Without Convictions
The author, Kazimierz Moczarski, was a member of the Polish Home Army, the Polish resistance to the German occupation during World War II. After the war, the Communist authorities imprisoned Moczarski because he was not a Communist. Ironically, he was held in a cell with Jurgen Stroop, the SS general who commanded the German forces that destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto, and with another German, a ...

Blood Harvest (The Executioner #213) (Mack Bolan - the Executioner , No 213)

1 review
Don Pendleton

Gold Eagle, 1996

Too gory
I'm a fan of Mack Bolan, but this one was just gross. The amount of detail that went into describing the "macabre wave of death" is tremendous and overwhelming to the point of being too gory. I also didn't like the way Mack is portrayed in this book, so I wouldn't recommend this book at all.

Combat Zone (The Executioner #202) (Mack Bolan the Executioner, No 202)
Pendleton

Gold Eagle, 1995

To protect American trade policies with Mexico, Adolfo Valdez has organized commando-style hit teams to assassinate U.S. businessmen south of the border. Mack Bolan has to find Valdez, a former Special Forces soldier, who possesses skills as lethal as Bolan's and is a formidable enemy in jungle combat. Original.

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