9780394520988 - Mountbatten: A Biography von Ziegler, Philip (17 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. fourth printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Alfred A. Knopf April 1985 Hardcover. No jacket. Soiling to boards and fore edge.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Illustrated. 784 pages, 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf, 1985. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair, not price clipped. Jacket Condition: 'Fair, not price clipped' Condition: 'Good+' Notes: Binding is square and solid. Boards are scuffed and marked. Pages are unmarked, clean and unbent. DJ has shelfwear, many wrinkles, little tears and chips, and a sticker scar to bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER; this is NOT ex-library; in very good condition with NO highlighting, underlining, etc. Book.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American Edition. First Printing. Stated first American edition. Publisher's full navy cloth, gilt lettering on spine, title blind-stamped on front cover, fore-edge deckle, family trees on endpapers. Illustrated with B&W photographs. . Although once-read, the volume is in virtually perfect condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The dust jacket is chipped at the head and heel of the spine, else near fine. FINE/VERY GOOD. Book Club Edition. B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 784, (1) pp.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke. A biography of one of the three Supreme Allied Commanders of W.W. II and last Viceroy of India who was assassinated by the I.R.A. at age 79.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Printing. Small chips to DJ ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 784 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both rubbed at spine ends and corners, dust jacket price clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 784, [2] pages. Endpaper charts. Illustrations. Maps. Charts. Notes. Bibliographical Notes. Index. Some wear and tears to DJ. Sticker residue at back of DJ. Philip Sandeman Ziegler CVO FRSL (born 24 December 1929) is a British biographer and historian. He attended Eton College and New College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Jurisprudence with highest honours before joining the British Foreign Service. In the Foreign Service, he served in Laos, Pretoria and Bogotá, as well as with the Delegation to NATO in Paris. In 1967 he resigned from the Foreign Service, and joined the publishers Collins. Originally intending to be a novelist, he began a career as biographer with his life of Talleyrand's lover, the Duchess of Dino. He was editor in chief at Collins from 1979 to 1980. He has written in various journals and newspapers including The Spectator, The Listener, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and History Today. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is the official biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) and it pronounces him, all told, "a GREAT MAN." But Mountbatten's well-known faults in evidence in Ziegler's scrupulous rendering. We see the personable naval cadet--already stung by his German-born father's forced exit (1914) as First Sea Lord--suddenly head his class, and determine never to settle for anything less. He makes friends with clever, subversive sorts; he compiles dossiers on the men under his command--groundwork for their fabled loyalty. He works feverishly, strives mightily. He is married to heiress Edwina, his match in looks and panache but temperamentally his opposite--restless, peevish, independent. Ziegler suggests that Mountbatten's rejection by Edwina "was in part responsible for [his] furious ambition." Ziegler details Mountbatten's career to precisely define, and delimit, his accomplishments. Mountbatten was an energetic, imaginative organizer/administrator of Combined Operations--pioneer of amphibious warfare, proponent of Normandy as the invasion-site, champion of the artificial harbor, Mulberry. The Dieppe raid, one of the two black marks against Mountbatten, Ziegler finds flawed in concept, further compromised by decisions Mountbatten opposed, disastrously executed for reasons over which he had no control. As Supreme Commander, South-East Asia, he overcame formidable obstacles; as Viceroy of India, he could not have forestalled partition, while delay would only have made matters worse--a view in which most authorities do concur. As for the relationship between Edwina and Nehru, Mountbatten is depicted as approving. Mountbatten's subsequent, lesser-known career gets no less close attention, as does his "hyperactive" retirement. Ziegler achieves a firm, delicate balance. First American Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Collectible-Very Good.