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The Battle of the River Plate: The Hunt for the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee Paperback - 2005

by Dudley Pope

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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 German vessel. Pope presents a true, enthralling account of the men, ships, and tactics that culminated in this naval action which so brilliantly began Britain's war at sea.

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  • Title The Battle of the River Plate: The Hunt for the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee
  • Author Dudley Pope
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McBooks Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-01-01
  • Features Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781590130964 / 1590130960
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.1 x 0.72 in (23.06 x 15.49 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Admiral Graf Spee (Battleship), River Plate, Battle of the, 1939
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004018310
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

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  • Library Journal, 12/01/2004, Page 184

About the author

Dudley Bernard Egerton Pope was born in 1925 into an ancient Cornish seafaring family. He joined the Merchant Navy at 16 and spent much of his early life at sea. During the Second World War, his boat was torpedoed, resulting in spinal injuries that plagued Pope for the rest of his life. Toward the end of the war, Pope turned to journalism, becoming the Naval and Defense Correspondent for the London Evening News. He also began researching naval history and in time became an authority on the Napoleonic era and Nelson's exploits, authoring several well-received volumes, especially on the Battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar.

Hornblower creator C. S. Forester urged Pope to try his hand at fiction and saw the younger writer as his literary heir. With Ramage (1965), Pope began what was to become an impressive series; over the next 24 years, he produced 17 more novels tracing the exploits of the fictional Lord Nicholas Ramage's career during the Napoleonic Wars. The Daily Mirror proclaimed him "the first and still favourite rival to Hornblower."

Pope lived, along with his wife and daughter, aboard boats, where he wrote the majority of his novels. Most of his adult life was spent in the Caribbean. Besides using the locale for fictional settings, he also wrote an authoritative naval history of the region, including a biography of the buccaneer Sir Henry Morgan. Pope died in 1997 at age 71.

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