The Death of Lord Mountbatten: Royal Power, India and the Bomb That Killed Him

On the bank holiday morning of 27 August 1979, Lord Mountbatten walked down to a small harbour in County Sligo to go lobster potting, the same routine he'd followed every summer for thirty years. He climbed aboard a wooden boat called Shadow V with his family and a local teenage deckhand, and within minutes of pulling away from the pier, a bomb hidden in the engine compartment the night before tore the boat apart. Mountbatten was 79. He'd spent six decades as one of the most powerful men in...