Mountbatten

ISBN: 9781848853744 出版年：2010 页码：396 Adrian Smith Bloomsbury Publishing

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. 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 obvious weaknesses. Beneath the rich, vain, often ruthless, embodiment of power and privilege could be foundeven vulnerable, character - the complex personality of a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century Britain and her empire.