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MOUNTBATTEN: HERO OF OUR TIME
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Author: Richard Hough
Publisher: Book Club Edition
Year published: 1981
Pagination: 290pp, illustrations, chapter notes, index
Condition: Good in dw
The eventful life of Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Mountbatten of Burma. In the Second World War he was head of Combined Operations in 1941, personally overseeing the Dieppe raid, ending the war as South East Asia Command receiving the Japanese surrender in Singapore. He was appointed Viceroy of India by Clement Attlee overseeing the granting of independence to the Partitioned India and Pakistan. Returning the Britain he joined the Admiralty later becoming the Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, a position he held until his murder by the IRA in 1979.