title: The Grand Inquisitors Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God
author:  Jonathan Kirsch 
description: Starred Review. Mention the Inquisition to any informed person and you're likely to garner a response somewhere between horror and disgust. Kirsch, a prolific writer and documenter of our past (<i>A History of the End of the World</i>; <i>Gods Against the Gods</i>), offers up an amazing recounting of the abuses by clergy and state in those terrible times. Clinical in its descriptions, the narrative's lively and crisp prose brings us right into the torture chamber, shining a much-needed light into the mindset of the church and its representatives. Alarmingly, the author insists that although the Inquisition is but a memory for us today, the inquisitional mindset is alive and well. Kirsch discovers many examples in more modern and familiar history: the Salem witch trials, Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt's placing Japanese-Americans in interment camps and Senator McCarthy's Communist-hunting. All of these injustices, he says, find their root in the same sense of power and privilege. Kirsch's forceful and cautionary account is essential reading for historians and anyone who wants to understand the potential dark side of religion. <i>(Oct.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ++Recipient: Loyal Imperial Commanders – as designated by Commissariat, The
  Librarius Staff, Inquisitor Baptiste & Canoness Arrea.++
  
  ++Subject: Traitors and Executions++
  
  ++Author: Andrei Viktorov – Scrivenor-in-attendance to Inquisitor Nikolay
  Vinogradov++
  
  ++Thought for the Day: To cheat is both cowardly and dishonourable++
  
  Attention all loyal citizens of the Imperium!!!
  
  Scanning of sacred books is a mortal sin!
  
  *********
  
  Whispered by Tzeentch, Lord of Hidden Knowledge.
  
  Inspired by Slaanesh, Master of Forbidden Pleasures.
  
  Resist foul machinations of the Dark Gods and buy books from the Black
  Library.
  
  ***********
  
  Thought of the Day: All traitors will be executed without mercy and
  compassion!
  
  
  Inquisition is watching YOU!
  
  THE BEGUILING
  
  Night and the rain had both been falling for some time and I'd been getting
  steadily colder, wetter and more hacked off since the middle of the afternoon
  before we saw the light, glimmering faint