Showing Master of Bengal: Clive and His India by Percival Spear
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224pp, heavily illustrated in b&w. The story of Robert Clive who won for the British against the French in southern India, after a start in the East India Company as a lowly writer. The key figure in the history of India is looked at from both a career and personal viewpoint and traces his decline to his suicide.