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The story of the British pursuit of the GRAF SPEE, nuff said.
- Sales Rank: #3875582 in Books
- Published on: 1990-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
This book is dated and contains many errors of fact and is not objective
By Charles Mccain
An Honorable German
In the course of my research for my novel, An Honorable German, which leads off with the Battle of the Rio Plata, I read every book on the Graf Spee. Dudley Pope was a fine writer but this book is dated and contains a number of errors. It was originally published in 1957 in the U.S. under the title "Graf Spee: the Life and Death of a Raider.". It was published a year earlier in England under the title, "The Battle of the River Plate". The current publisher just switched the titles. It is the exact same book as published in the U.S. by Lippincott in 1957. It is outrageous, to put it mildly, that the publisher is passing this off as a contemporary book when it was actually written more than forty-three years ago.
Mr. Pope only interviewed the Royal Navy participants in the battle. He did not interview anyone from the Graf Spee, although most of the officers survived the war as did almost all of the men. This is hagiography, not history. Mr. Pope was a good story teller so read this book for entertainment only because it is not an objective history of the battle or of the raiding cruise of the Graf Spee.
What Pope and all other writers on the battle have missed is that the biggest issue for Captain Langsdorff was the motor mounts on the auxiliary engines were cracked--badly--as were some on the main engines. They could not be fixed without some months in a dockyard. Thus, it was entirely possible that the auxiliary engines, which supplied electricity and other power to the ship, could simply break loose from their iron beds and obvioulsy that would have been a disaster in the middle of a battle. Several of the main engines had severely cracked motor mounts as well. This fact doesn't show up in any of the histories of the battle which is just sloppiness on the part of the authors.
In the early 1980s, I corresponded with Jurgen Wattenburg, the Senior Navigation Officer of the Graf Spee, and he told me the above facts in writing. He was puzzled that various authors, all of them British at that time, were writing books, or had written books, about the Graf Spee and the battle of the River Plate and no one had ever contacted him or any of the officers who had survived the war. He was the highest ranking survivor among the officers and one of the most experienced.
He was a very bitter man so I say with caution that it was his opinion, which is hardly unbiased, that the best book on the Graf Spee and the Rio Plata is: Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee by F.W. Rasenack. The author was a young officer on the Graf Spee and just died last year in Uruguay where he had retired. Unfortunately the book has never been translated into English which is quite unfortunate.
Charles McCain
author of An Honorable German
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Gripping Writing Style!!!!
By Eric Gannon
This is absolutely the best written book on naval warfare that i have ever read!
Pope's writing style is so fluid, full of analogies, and taking the complex and mechanical naval warfare terminology and tactics so that any reader can understand as well as feel that edge-of-the-seat feeling of the battle!
Not only is the author's work incredible, this happens to be a critical and interesting event of the first few months of WW2. If Graf Spee had been able to sink Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles relatively unscathed, the domino effect that surface raiders have, so artfully described by the author would have been enormous, perhaps lightening the weight of British power on all the other German naval exploits, U-Boats, Bismarck, Norway and the Blucher, Tirpitz....
I highly recommend this book to any person interested in WW2, it will grab and hold your attention. Also a very sincere salut to the dynamic writing of the author, particularly the part where Spee and Exeter first sight each other!
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
initial naval battles in ww 2
By Amazon Customer
What this book doesn't consider enough is the tactical situation. This book is a nice description of the battle, but it loses a bit in the interpretation of the issues. This book was originally written in 1957, 18 years after the battle described, but it is too close to the battle to understand Langsdorff's position as a ship that, if found, would likely be chased down. Thus, he had to sink those that found him, whoever they were. larger or smaller, and that understanding is crucial to understand the Battle of the River Platte. Author infers that Spee's commander could have let these warship targets go by. It was widely said that the Graf Spee was faster than almost anything larger (and therefore could successfully escape), and more powerful than anything smaller (and therefore could successfully wipe them out). But, that doesn't make a good tactical situation, since the faster enemy ships could keep away from you yet keep you in touch and call in their bigger buddies, with you having no way to escape those smaller ships views of where you were in the oceans once you, as a raider, had been located. So, the Graf Spee had to attack any enemy warships it saw, instead of holding that it was more powerful than the smaller enemy ships and faster than the larger enemy ships. The Graf Spee was too slow to escape the smaller ships that could call in larger ships, and in fact that is what happened in the end. Capt Langsdorff of the Graf Spee did the most he could in his tactics with the ship he was given. He was also very gallant in saving many lives on the merchant ships he attacked.
Other than this single issue of tactics, this is a masterful book of the battle, and worthy of purchase or, as in my case, buying another copy so that I could reread the battle as it happened, while keeping my thoughts of the tactics (see above) to one side. No matter one's tactics, what happened happened, and this book describes it well.
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