Biography of mountbatten

The official biographies of Lord Louis Mountbatten (known as ‘Dickie’) and his wife, Edwina, written respectively by Philip Ziegler and Janet Morgan, are admirable and authoritative but also discreet and emollient, leaving ample scope for this more candid life of the famous couple by Andrew Lownie. His task was not easy. Many of the Mountbattens’ papers are still under wraps, held variously by the family, the government and the Royal Archives. Edwina was quite untrustworthy, doctoring her own diary and perjuring herself in court over her liaison with a black man, believed to be Paul Robeson. Her husband was a prolific myth-maker, presenting himself in person, print and film as a peerless national hero. Anthony Eden called him a congenital liar. The naval historian Stephen Roskill warned that Mountbatten’s testimony should never be relied on unless it was supported by independent evidence. Field Marshal Templer once told him, ‘Dickie, you’re so crooked that if you swal

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Mountbatten: A Biography

Hough, Richard

New York: Random House, 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #
ISBN: X

Second printing. Jacket creased.

xv, pp. Illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. "Lord Louis Mountbatten was one of the most colorful figures of the twentieth century, and his tragic death in August , when his converted fishing boat was blown up in Donegal Bay, made world headlines. Here is the first full-length biography of the remarkable man who was born Prince Louis of Battenberg in , the son of an obscure German prince and Queen Victoria's favorite granddaughter. Brought up visiting the crowned heads of Europe, to most of whom he was related, he lost his title at seventeen when his father became a British subject and changed the family name to Mountbatten. At twenty-two he married an heiress and became a leader in British and American jazz-age society during the s. He was a hero in the early years of World War II, was made Supreme Allied Com