MOUNTBATTEN: EIGHTY YEARS IN PICTURES

Author: Various

Publisher: Book Club Edition

Year published: 1979

Pagination: 224pp, 24 col & 269 b/w photos.

Condition: Good in d/w

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A photographic biography. Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC was an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was the last Viceroy and first Governor-General of independent India, and First Sea Lord. He was assassinated in August, 1979 by the Provisional IRA, who planted a bomb in his boat in Donegal Bay, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland