Author: POPE Dudley
Title: The Battle of the River Plate. Foreword by Admiral Sir Edward Parry. Preface by Admiral Sir Charles Woodhouse. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: William Kimber,, [1956]. 8vo., Third Impression, with frontispiece, 20 plates on 14, full-page map in the text, front endpaper map and rear endpaper chart, neat German stamp on half-title; black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly rubbed dustwrapper. Published six months after the first edition. The best and most detailed single-volume account, with many valuable appendices. Parry commanded ACHILLES, Woodhouse commanded AJAX during the action. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.190; Law 0113.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, river plate, graf spee, exeter, ajax, achilles, surface raiders, atlantic, montivideo, dudley pope


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