Author: Terraine, John,
Title: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LORD MOUNTBATTEN.
Description: Arrow Books, London, 1980, new issue, trade paperback, 202pp, 64pp half tone ills., photo-pictorial wrappers, a larger format re-issue about 9 x 6 inches without mention of the earlier 1970 Arrow edition, with a postscript about Mountbatten's assassination by the IRA in 1979 and with many more illustrations, an illustrated biography from childhood to retirement, including brief details of HMS Kelly, his time as Advisor on Combined Operations (Lofoten, Bruneval, St. Nazaire, Dieppe), liaison with USA and his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, a little rubbed at extrems., paper tanned, bookseller label lower wrapper, ink inscr. half title, very good,

Keywords: war ww2 mountbatten kelly st. nazaire dieppe normandy lofoten bruneval burma malaya crete combined operations india ira funeral


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