
My Mountbatten Years
In The Service of Lord Louis
by William Evans
Headline Book Publishing, 1989, [First Edition], b/w photographic plates, illustrated (family tree) end-papers, hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 0747201424
Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, dustjacket has a little rubbing to edges and surface, otherwise overall fine condition
'For ten years, with barely a day off duty, William Evans lived on the heels of Lord Louis - sometimes literally, as when he held on to the great man's feet as he filmed over the edge of a live volcano, or seized his shirt tail to stop him toppling into the jaws of a giant hippo in the Zambezi river! From this unique viewpoint, he offers a glimpse that the biographers cannot give - of a man who was both hero and indomitable task master, capable of inspiring, simultaneously, extreme irritation and undying loyalty, a man who was always larger than life, one of the last truly Great Men of our time.'