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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Rajiv Gandhi, Moustapha Akkad, Anthony Berry, Christopher Ewart-Biggs, Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco, Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, Brian Wells, Rupert Thorneloe, Philip Testa, Gary O'Donnell, Alex Odeh, Frank Steunenberg, Michael Lockett, Rupert Hamer, Michael Willetts, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, Jean-Pierre Cherid, Thomas Begley, Elizabeth Jacobson, James McDade, Sarah Bryant, Edward O'Brien, Patricia Black, Stanley Ray Bond, Michelle Lang, Alfred Herrhausen, Kenneth Howorth, Arleigh McCree, Giles Hart, Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, Roger Goad, Gundolf Kohler, Jamie Murphy, D. M. Dassanayake, Ramon Lorenzo Falcon. Excerpt: Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS (ne Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 - 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India (1947-48), from which the modern Republic of India would emerge in 1950. From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier. In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who planted a bomb in his fishing boat, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the decline of the British Empire in the mid to late 20th century. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917. He was...
