Lord Mountbatten Biography Book
This book would be good information for any person in the military business or most any area.
Lord mountbatten biography book. The life and times of lord mountbatten. Louis and edwina were born in 1900 and 1902 into fortunate if somewhat equivocal circumstances. However in my view lady mountbatten was the real hero.
The life of extreme wealth and privilege enjoyed by him and his wealthy wife did not always bring them happiness and mountbatten obviously had many different facets to his personality. A major figure behind his nephew philips marriage to queen elizabeth ii and instrumental in the royal family taking the mountbatten name he was supreme allied commander of south east asia during world war ii and the last viceroy of india. Louis was born a prince of battenberg a great grandson of queen victoria whose family tree dripped with famous names.
Mountbatten achieved the top rank with a career in the british navy and other areas including the reorganization of india. The 75 year old fbi documents came out after being obtained through a freedom of information foi request made by british historian andrew lownie for his new biography the mountbattens. By earl mountbatten of burma louis mountbatten and philip ziegler oct 1 1990.
Lord mountbatten no doubt performed as he was told but i found very little that was admirable in the way the occupation of india was terminated. Complete and comprehensive biography of one of the outstanding military officers in history. An illustrated biography based on the television history hardcover january 1 1968 by john terraine author.
Personal diary of admiral the lord louis mountbatten supreme allied commander south east asia 1943 1946. Andrew lownies joint biography of louis and edwina mountbatten chronicles both the high and low moments of the couples careers. Enjoyed the book and learned from it.