In a previous review Torture and Democracy was called 'monumental, definitive, devastating'. It is certainly not definitive (simply because nothing ever is), but it sure as hell is monumental and devastating. In 590 pages of text, followed by 250 pages of notes, literature and index, a modern history of (different ways of) torture is described which makes this book highly important literature but also hard to consume over a cup of tea and some biscuits.
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