The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God

296 pp. Color and black-and-white plates. The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by nationally bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch is a provocative popular history of the Inquisition, the 12th century reign of church-sanctioned terror. Ranging from the Knights Templar to the first Protestants, from Joan of Arc to Galileo, The Grand Inquisitor's Manual 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.