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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: Mountbatten series
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 17:08:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 17:08:30 1986
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There's a book called Stillwell and the American Experience in China,
by Barbara Tuchman.  It has some interesting things to say about
Mountbatten and the general British propensity for presenting every
aspect of their history in a rosy glow.  Neither Mountbatten nor
Churchill were particularly interested in winning Burma back from
the Japanese, for instance.  There's nothing on the events just
before the independence of India, but the book might still be
worth checking out of a library by people interested in Mountbatten.
-- 
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