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Book Club Associates (1985), Hardcover
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A rounded, sympathetic and yet wholly undeceived portrait of the man and the many facets of his character. From his christening - which Queen Victoria attended - to his days as Supreme Commander in South-East Asia during World War II, to India where he oversaw the move to independence, to the Suez crisis, we discover a man who, for all the glitter and the gold, was nothing if not human.
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LibraryThing member tuckerresearch
An authorized biography, which perhaps clouds it a bit, but thorough and engaging nonetheless. Mountbatten was involved in some of the most important events of the 20th century and it would have been interesting to see what he would have done in the '80s if the damned Irish Republicans hadn't have
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murdered him. Why kill an 79 year old man? Show Less
LibraryThing member David-Block
Well written and researched. An involved life taking part in a number of historical events in his time.
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1985