The Black Hole of Calcutta (A Collier classic) by Noel Barber
The Black Hole of Calcutta (A Collier classic)

Noel Barber

The Black Hole of Calcutta (A Collier classic)

Noel Barber

254 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

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A bare, low-ceilinged dungeon with two barred air-holes, the cell knownas the Black Hole prison, in the British East India Company's FortWilliam, was intended to hold at most a couple of prisoners. But on theterrible night of June 20, 1756, at the...

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