TY  - BOOK
AU  - POPE Dudley
TI  - The Battle of the River Plate
SN  - 1861760892 (pbk.):
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London
PB  - Chatham Publishing
KW  - ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE
KW  - BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
KW  - NAVAL OPERATIONS
KW  - SECOND WORLD WAR
KW  - SOUTH ATLANTIC
N2  - First published in 1956, this book describes the first major naval campaign of the Second World War. The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was attacking allied merchant shipping in the Atlantic. Pursued by Allied navies to the South Atlantic, Graf Spee engaged in a severe battle with the Royal Navy cruisers Ajax, Exeter, and Achilles off the river Plate on 13 December 1939. Damaged in the action Graf Spee sought shelter in the neutral port of Montevideo. The British mounted a disinformation campaign which was so successful that Captain Langsdorff scuttled his ship and later shot himself
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