{"product_id":"famous-last-words-confessions-humour-and-bravery-of-the-departing-9781526770899","title":"Famous Last Words: Confessions, Humour and Bravery of the Departing","description":"Nothing focuses the mind more starkly than impending death. Its inevitable spectre greets us all; from princes to paupers and nobility to the needy. Prepare to mount the scaffold and share in the final utterings of the condemned; join the stricken in their death beds and witness unburdened tongues wag their closing, and often remarkable confessions as deeply entrenched secrets are finally unshackled in the wake of imminent death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fates and Final Words' collects a fascinating selection of destinies culminating in their often flamboyant yet always captivating, final utterances before shuffling off this mortal coil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealed inside are tales of sangfroid bravery, astonishing ironies and overdue confessions often betraying grave miscarriages of justice, throughout British history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealed inside are tales of sangfroid bravery, astonishing ironies and overdue confessions often betraying grave miscarriages of justice throughout British history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriter and poet Sir Walter Raleigh had some typically forthright and urging words for his executioner as the hesitant axeman displayed fear and reluctance to perform his stately duties. Having felt the sharp edge of the tool that would presently be rained down upon him, rather than fearing his impending doom, Raleigh would offer goading encouragement to his maker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWere the final words of convicted murderer Ernest Brown a candid confession to another killing he had committed deep in the Northumberland Moors some two years previously which had lay unsolved?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd what of Britain's first actor to have had a knighthood bestowed upon him? Learn of the staggering irony that saw his final words on stage prophetically turn out to be his last in life...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pen and Sword History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526770899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216","brand":"Chris Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40085555380405,"sku":"9781526770899","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0f327a5d-6b66-4a5c-922b-c2388f420e80.jpg?v=1621901801","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/famous-last-words-confessions-humour-and-bravery-of-the-departing-9781526770899","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}