Summary
George Ryley Scott: A History of Torture Through the Ages
Scott's work is a classic that stands out among related books in the English-speaking world. It is a unique representation of the dark side of human history and bestiality. The way the phenomenon of torture is treated in the book indicates the presence of violence among people in all eras, on all continents. The imagination and innovation of the torture methods Scott writes about are shocking. He portrays torture as sadism and as an instrument of extortion. The publishing house Gradac decided to publish this work in a Serbian translation after realizing that there is no translation of any work dealing with the phenomenon of torture in the catalogs of public libraries in Serbia.
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