$26.53
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2020
Summary
The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller
‘Richly entertaining… impressively well-researched’ - Daily Mail ‘Incisive… strongly recommend’ - The Times ‘A study in aggressive social climbing [with] quick-moving fluency’ - Sunday Times
The intimate story of a unique marriage that spans the heights of glamour and power to infidelity, manipulation and disaster through the heart of the 20th century.
DICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nep…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788702980 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788702980 |
| Author: | Andrew Lownie |
| Publisher: | Bonnier Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | BLINK Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 364g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 130mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
‘Lownie’s account of things is a mixture of inevitably indulgent gossip, descriptions of lavish parties, yachts and mansions, while also evaluating Mountbatten’s chequered military career and Edwina’s humanitarian work. One for royal watchers.’ - Sydney Morning Herald
Andrew Lownie
- Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union.
- Holds Masters and doctorate degrees from Edinburgh University.
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
- Former visiting fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
- Has run his own literary agency since 1988.
- Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information.
- President of The Biographers Club.
- Has written for The Times, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, and The Guardian.
- Formerly served in the Royal Naval Reserve.
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