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The Battle of the River Plate : the First Naval Battle of the Second World War
Landsborough, Gordon2025
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At dawn on 13 December 1939, smoke was seen on the horizon; HMS Exeter was told to close in and investigate. Two minutes later a dramatic signal was sent from the British cruiser - I think it is a pocket battleship. It was. The Deutschland-class heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, marauder of the South Atlantic shipping, had sailed into a trap. Three smaller British cruisers closed in on a German warship which, so Hitler had boasted, could out-sail any ship powerful enough to damage her, and out-gun any ship able to keep up with her - an invincible ship. So began the Battle of the River Plate.
Main title:
The Battle of the River Plate : the First Naval Battle of the Second World War / Gordon Landsborough.
Author:
Landsborough, Gordon, author
Edition:
New edition.
Imprint:
Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2025.
Collation:
208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
This edition originally published: 2016.
ISBN:
9781399077767 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.545943940.545 LAND
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
8964727
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