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Mountbatten : apprentice war lord /
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, Adria...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 aristocra. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 384 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | "Bibliography and filmography": pages 363-376 |
| ISBN: | 9781441676719 1441676716 9780857714923 0857714929 |