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The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten Hardcover – January 1, 1980

by John Terraine (Author)
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The Life And Times Of Lord Mountbatten
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    202 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1980
  5. ISBN-10
    0030568994
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0030568992
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Holt, Rinehart, and Winston; First Edition (January 1, 1980)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 202 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0030568994
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0030568992
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.4 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
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longtime sifi reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read !
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019
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What an amazing life, well lived. He was an amazing person who fit 10 lifetimes into his own. We don't see many leaders like him anymore.
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Ellen Watkinson
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Very good book. An outline of world history from 1930 till 1969.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stormy7
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It was a great historical read about a different time and place that was real. Hard to believe theses things happend not so long a go to a real person.
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Henrik Anckarsater
1.0 out of 5 stars Just a reprint of a TV manus.
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2019
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Thought it might have been a biography, but only swathes of text from the TV production with the same title. A total waste of money, should have for a refund but didn’t have time.
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Hawkeye birder
3.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting history of Lord Mountbatten especially how the royal ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2017
Very interesting history of Lord Mountbatten especially how the royal families of all the major powers in Europe were related by marriages. The book takes him from birth to his career in the Navy and events leading up to, during an after World War II. I wanted to read the book because I was interested in his time as Viceroy of India and his role in India's independence and partitioning.
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Paul Lawrence
4.0 out of 5 stars An incredible life.
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
Quite a handy book to get your hands on because it shows a man who was at the centre of the action - or knew those who were - for such an amazing period in history. This book is based on the TV series that was done with the full co-operation of Mountbatten and as such it is almost autobiographical (more on that later). At only 256 pages you just know so much more could have been said but it's that very conciseness and brevity that lends the book such readability. The quality of the man seeps through and the few pages written at the end of the book by John Terraine adds even further insight into the life of a man who saw so much change in the world. A truly inspiring figure.

As the book unfolds it goes from his childhood wherein the connections between the great families of Europe are shown vividly through to his service in World War One and his acquaintance with several historical figures of import. The narrative then moves to the interwar years and his friendship with various royal figures. One way the book stays on track and is able to condense so much into such a short work is that it delves only very lightly into areas such as the abdication and the like. And herein lies one of the weaknesses of the book. It runs very much as a narrative and doesn't spend much time talking about the subjects thoughts on thing. Probably because the chap himself presented so much of the TV show. And one gets the feeling that given the book is half written in Mountbattens voice and half in Terraines that a grittier work (one without Mountbattens cooperation) would have been really something special if it looked at what he thought of things such as the abdication. As it is we get little use of Mountbatten as a prism though which to look at some important events he was closely privy to.

Conversely the work succeeds because it did have Mountbatten on side. And we get a range of thoughts that he was obviously happy to put in writing about other events and his discussions around the Admiralty are enlightening and at times even a trifle irreverent which is a nice touch. As is noted by Terraine in his afterword Mountbatten seems to have oscillated betwixt a bragging chap and a humble one as the mood took him or as he felt was appropriate (hence the reference to a comedians skit which the character of Mountbatten proclaims "I invented technology").

There are two sets of black and white photographs but alas no bibliography. Ultimately armchair historians will want to get themselves a copy of this if they are in any way interested in some of the more salient events in British history in the 20th century. It touches on so many of them - World War One, the interwar years and drama in the royal family, the drift towards the Second World War and then the granting of independence to the subcontinent and the partition thereof (and hasn't that worked out oh-so-very-well [sarcasm]). There are also honourable mentions to events such as the 1956 Suez Canal actions and the work he did as a NATO commander in the 1960's.

All up well worthwhile though it would be interesting to read a later biography where the subject himself wasn't so embedded.
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Phil Goddard
5.0 out of 5 stars what a man
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2014
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it was a very interasting book,what a travesty how he was killed ,by cretins,P Goddard, I heard he had a boxing match with a sailor on one of his ships who,d been bullying another,guess who won,your right LORD LOUISE
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2015
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Really interesting. I didn't realize just how much he did in his life.
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Emma Bradbury
3.0 out of 5 stars very good, but okay and delivered on time as stated
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2018
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cover a bit tatier than usual as used, very good, but okay and delivered on time as stated.
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