Lionel Carter

Gebundenes Buch

Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty

22 March-15 August 1947

Beschreibung

Together with a comprehensive bibliography-cum-list for further readings this volume is aimed to serve as a veritable reference tool.

Autor

Before becoming the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten played a major part in the defeat of Japan in the second world war. He was Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia Command between 1943 and 1946. Here he was also responsible for preparing Burma for civilian rule. Mountbatten served as first Governor-General of the new Dominion of India and after he left India in June 1948 he held a number of senior posts. He was First Sea Lord in Britain between 1955 and 1959 and then became (until 1965) Chief of the U.K. Defence Staff. For more than ten years, Lionel Carter was a member of the team which produced the British Government's series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-47. From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 154mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9788173045165
• ISBN-10: 817304516X
• Artikelnr.: 35734969