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Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979)

Author of Mountbatten: Eighty Years in Pictures

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Diaries of Lord Mountbatten

Works by Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Mountbatten: Eighty Years in Pictures (1979) 63 copies

The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920-22: Tours with the Prince of Wales (1987) 33 copies

Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, 1943-1946 (1988) 33 copies

From shore to shore : the tour diaries of Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1953-1979 (1989) — Author — 8 copies

Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1945 (1951) 8 copies, 1 review

Apocalypse Now (1980) 5 copies

An introduction to polo (1705) — Preface — 3 copies

Time only to look forward: speeches as Viceroy of India and Governor-General of the Dominion of India, 1947-48, including related addresses 1 copy

Reflections on the transfer of power and Jawaharlal Nehru (1968) 1 copy

Calcutta Light Horse, A.F.(L.) 1759-1881-1947 (1957) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 623 copies, 9 reviews

The Greatest Raid of All (1972) — Foreword, some editions — 172 copies, 5 reviews

Combined Operations: The Official Story of the Commandos (1943) — Foreword — 148 copies, 3 reviews

Very Special Intelligence (1977) — Foreword — 108 copies, 2 reviews

The Encyclopedia of Sea Warfare from the First Ironclads to the Present Day (1975) — Foreword — 104 copies, 1 review

The Bruneval Raid: Stealing Hitler's Radar (1974) — Foreword, some editions — 102 copies, 5 reviews

D-Day (1974) — Foreword — 92 copies

The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1855-1911 (1976) — Preface — 73 copies

British Battleships : Warrior, 1860 to Vanguard, 1950. A History of Design, Construction and Armament (1957) — Introduction — 52 copies, 2 reviews

World War II: Land, Sea & Air Battles, 1939-1945 (1977) — Introduction — 50 copies

Room 39; a study in Naval Intelligence (1968) — Foreword — 27 copies

British destroyers: a history of development, 1892-1953 (1967) — Foreword — 19 copies

Salt-water palaces (1979) — Introduction, some editions — 18 copies

THE QUEEN MOTHER (1990) 11 copies

AWARDS OF HONOUR THE ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND AWARD OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COMMONWEALTH FROM EDWARD III TO ELEIZABETH II (1956) — Introduction, some editions — 7 copies

The Cambridge Armorial (Orbis Publishing, London; HBK; Edited By: Cecil Humphery - Smith, Heather E. Peek, Gordon H. Wright, & C. W. Scott - Giles; Foreword By: Earl Mountbatten… (1871) — Foreword — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten,
Other names: Battenberg, Louis von
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Mountbatten, Louis
Prince Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas of Battenberg (birth name)
Birthdate: 1900-06-25
Date of death: 1979-08-27
Gender: male
Education: University of Oxford (Christ Church)
Organizations: House of Battenberg
Royal Navy
Relationships: Mountbatten, Pamela (daughter)
Queen Victoria (great-grandmother)
Knatchbull, Timothy (grandson)
Erbach-Schönberg, Marie Fürstin zu (aunt)
Cause of death: execution (by bomb)
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Frogmore House, Windsor, England, UK
Places of residence: Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland
Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, England, UK
Place of death: Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland
Associated Place (for map): UK

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Report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia 1943-1945 by Vice-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten

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Also by: 16
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Rating: 3.9

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