Lord Louis Mountbatten achieved great things both in war and peace as a military leader and public servant. The First World War and its aftermath shaped his early life, in mid-career he was a victorious commander in the Second World War, and when peace came he brought independence to India and Pakistan. Mountbatten remains a controversial figure, but when his faults are considered in the light of the world-shaking events in which he was involved, they are overwhelmingly outweighed by his achievements. His murder, and those of members of his family and a friend, on 27 August 1979, by assassins of the Provisional IRA, shocked the world. This book was first published in hardback 1996 as The Princely Sailor, by Brasseys.
Ian McGeoch Bücher
The name Mountbatten resonates through the history of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Born in 1900 as Prince Louis of Battenberg, a great grandson of Queen Victoria, Louis Mountbatten's life was at first shaped by the First World War and its aftermath; in mid-career he was a victorious commander in the Second World War; and when peace came he brought independence to India and Pakistan