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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Gift message in front and what looks like authors signature. Spine faded. Pages excellent and unused. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Clive of India was one of the most extraordinary and colourful figures Britain has ever produced. The founder of Britain’s Indian empire with all its contradictions he was also Britain’s first great guerrilla fighter by the age of twenty-seven conqueror of Bengal at thirty-one and avenging angel of righteousness against the greed of his own fellow-countrymen at forty-one; before himself being brought under painful scrutiny by Parliament and dying violently in still-mysterious circumstances before his fiftieth birthday. The story of Clive can be viewed on several levels: as a spirited military adventure by a man who defied death many times who withstood the greatest siege in British military history and conspired to force one of the most absolute and cruellest monarchs on earth off his throne; as the morality tale of a penniless young man who became the sole ruler of a huge empire ended up as one of the richest men in Britain and was then brought to account and driven to despair; or as the story of a plundering early poacher- turned-gamekeeper who sought to establish a moral and legal order amidst slaughter and greed. (SP)