Rewriting History? Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Efforts to Distance Himself From the 1956 Suez Crisis

@article{Smith2012RewritingHA,
  title={Rewriting History? Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Efforts to Distance Himself From the 1956 Suez Crisis},
  author={Adrian A. Smith},
  journal={Contemporary British History},
  year={2012},
  volume={26},
  pages={489 - 508}
}
  • Adrian A. Smith
  • Published 12 November 2012
  • History
  • Contemporary British History
The First Sea Lord's offer to resign as an Anglo-French taskforce sailed to seize the Suez Canal in November 1956 became known following his retirement in 1965. Mountbatten oversaw naval preparations with consummate professionalism, although his praise for British forces' seizure of Port Said was tempered by admiration of the French, and not shared by all Combined Operations veterans. David Astor of the Observer actually opposed the invasion, and was passed information by a dissenting… 
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