Grand Inquisitor's Manual

<p><em>The Grand Inquisitor's Manual </em>by nationally bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch is a provocative popular history of the Inquisition the 12<sup>th</sup> century reign of church-sanctioned terror. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first Protestants from Joan of Arc to Galileo <em>The Grand Inquisitor's Manual </em>is a fascinating and sobering study of the torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of heretics in God's name--the original blueprints for persecution originally drafted in the Middle Ages but followed for centuries afterwards up to and including the advanced interrogation methods recently employed at Guantanamo Bay.</p>