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• Octave Mirbeau, Alvah C. Bessie: The Torture Garden
• John Conroy: Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
• Teresa Lauer: Hours of Torture, Years of Silence : My Soul Was the Scene of the Crime
• David Chandler Frog: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
• Michal Kerrigan: The Instruments of Torture
• Daniel P. Mannix: The History of Torture
• Jean Kellaway: The History of Torture and Execution: From Early Civilization through Medieval Times to the Present
• Geoffrey Abbott: Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers: A History of Torture and Its Instruments
• Amnesty International: Hidden Scandal, Secret Shame, Torture and Ill Treatment of Women
• Mitchell B. Merback: The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
• William T. Cavanaugh: Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)
• Gordon Thomas: Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse
• Duncan Forrest: A Glimpse of Hell: Reports on Torture Worldwide