{"product_id":"2026200013711-secondhand-the-life-and-times-of-lord-mountbatten","title":"The Life And Times Of Lord Mountbatten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in twentieth-century British history cut as dramatic a silhouette as Louis Mountbatten — naval commander, Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, last Viceroy of India, and confidant of kings — and John Terraine's The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten captures the full sweep of this extraordinary life in richly illustrated detail. Drawing on the acclaimed television documentary series, this illustrated biography chronicles Mountbatten's meteoric rise through the ranks of the Royal Navy, his pivotal wartime command, and his central role in one of history's most momentous events: the partition and independence of India in 1947.\n\nTerraine brings his hallmark narrative precision to a subject of immense complexity, presenting Mountbatten not merely as a decorated soldier and statesman, but as a man of contradictions — brilliant and vain, visionary and controversial — whose decisions shaped the destinies of nations. Enriched by a personal foreword from Mountbatten himself, the book offers an intimacy and authority that sets it apart from conventional military biography. Readers drawn to the great dramas of empire, war, and political transformation will find this volume an indispensable and compulsively readable portrait of an age that will never come again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160904245467,"sku":"2026200013711-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d7e50d86-61f9-4786-a804-2f8fc67b74e8.png?v=1787188364","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013711-secondhand-the-life-and-times-of-lord-mountbatten","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}