The Battle of the River Plate: The Hunt for the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee

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McBooks Press, Jan 1, 2005 - History - 256 pages
This tale of the Battle of the River Plate follows the machinations of the German war machine as Kapitan zur See Hans Langsdorff commands the pocket battleship Graf Spee on a mission to cripple British shipping. Through clever subterfuge and daring, the Graf Spee takes ship after ship, ultimately forcing the British Navy to send twenty ships in search of the elusive Spee.

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About the author (2005)

Dudley Pope, a naval defense correspondent of the London Evening News, progressed to writing carefully researched naval history. C.S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. Pope began what was to become an impressive series with Ramage (1965) and, over the next 24 years, produced 17 more novels tracing Lord Ramage's career. Pope died in 1997.

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TitleThe Battle of the River Plate: The Hunt for the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee
AuthorDudley Pope
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherMcBooks Press, 2005
ISBN1590130960, 9781590130964
Length256 pages
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History / Military / World War II
  
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