ENGLISH

River Plate 1939: The Sinking of the Graf Spee

By Angus Konstam

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
2016
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
63 MB (66240953 bytes)
Series
Osprey Campaign 171
Pages
0\100
Time added
2016-11-12 12:24:57

Description

Days before the outbreak of World War II a handful of German commerce raiders put out to sea to prey on Allied merchantmen. Amongst them was the Panzerschiff (armoured ship) Graf Spee, a formidable warship that boasted the firepower of a battleship but the size, speed and range of a cruiser. When World War II commenced, under the command of Captain Langsdorff the Graf Spee began a hunting spree across the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean that eventual took her to the River Plate in search of her next victim - an Allied convoy. Instead she found three Royal Navy cruisers under the command of Commodore Harwood, eager to put an end to the pocket battleship that had been terrorizing Allied merchant ships.

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