The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire by Jan Dalley

The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire

Jan Dalley

240 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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The story of the Black Hole of Calcutta was once drilled into every British schoolchild: how in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal attacked Fort William and locked the survivors in a tiny cell, where over a hundred souls died in insufferable heat. British r...

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