Mountbatten : apprentice war lord / Adrian Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Adrian, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl, 1900-1979.

Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten.

Admirals--Great Britain--Biography.

Admirals.

World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations, British.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Was he a far-sighted war hero, or an ambitious networker promoted well above his natural talent? Admired as a modernising chief of staff, a timely decoloniser, and a genuine player on the world stage, Mountbatten nevertheless continues to attract fierce criticism. In this timely new biography, Adrian Smith offers a fresh and convincing perspective, depicting Mountbatten as a quintessentially modern, highly professional figure within the Royal Navy, and at Combined Operations and SE Asia Command, a hands-on officer who enthusiastically embraced new technology; someone who, although an aristocrat, was by instinct a progressive, innovative in his approach to man management. Smith brings Mountbatten to life, acknowledging the essential qualities as well as the obvious weaknesses. Beneath the rich, vain, often ruthless, embodiment of power and privilege could be found a very human, even vulnerable, character - the complex personality of a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century Britain and her empire."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Preface

Part One Dickie Mountbatten, consul, courtier, charmer and chancer

1.Introduction

2.Lord Louis Mountbatten - royal parvenue? Part Two Mountbatten at war, 1914-1939

3. The First World War and the 1920s

4. Fast-tracking in 1930s Part Three Mountbatten at war, Flotilla Captain 1939-41

5. HMS 'Kelly', 1939-1940

6. HMS 'Kelly' 1941 Part Four Mountbatten at war, Chief of Combined Operations 1941-43

7. From Adviser to Chief of Combined Operations 1941-2

8. The Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942

9. Dieppe - the aftermath, the inquest and the debate

10. 'The steel hand from sea' - Combined Operations at its zenith

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-376) and index.

ISBN:

9786612881985

9780755625444

0755625447

9780857730879

0857730878

9781282881983

1282881981

9781441676719

1441676716

9780857714923

0857714929

9786000043063

6000043066

OCLC:

710975934