The Battle of the River Plate

By Dudley Pope

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870210181
• ISBN13: 9780870210181
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Pope is an outstanding naval historian

Despite knowing "how it ends" (this is history, after all) Pope kept me riveted with his excellent writing and wealth of detail about the men, the ships, and the places. Buy this book if you can find it! I highly recommend this and anything else Pope has written.