This would be an incorrect assumption. Torture and cruelty are not limited to any specific culture, geographic area or time period. Wherever weak, fearful people struggle to retain their grip on power, there is an almost unlimited capacity to inflict pain and suffering in the name of the greater ...
Both families were from the social stratum that Americans call ‘good families’; in Britain they would be referred to as ‘the right sort’. Flavia could trace her family’s arrival in America back to the Mayflower and her ancestors had distinguished themselves in the American Revolutionary War. Her ...