Author: CAMPBELL Commander A.B.
Title: The Battle of the Plate. With a Foreword by Lord Chatfield. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Herbert Jenkins,, [1940]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps, title and following leaves lightly browned; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed at edges and lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. One of the earliest published accounts of the action: also covers the release of the Spee prisoners by COSSACK from ALTMARK. Includes ROH and awards. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Law 0104; inexplicably, not recorded by Enser.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, river plate, battle of the plate, graf spee, exeter, ajax, achilles, archibald campbell


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