Description:
Hardcover Cloth 340 pages. Condition Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated First edition 1968. Worn red boards and black embossing on this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Slight shelf wear. Edges have the usual yellowing. Price clipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - a few tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.Hoyt recounts the story of how the German cruisers of the East Asian Squadron under the brilliant leadership of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee defied incredible odds and inflicted the most serious naval defeat on the British since Trafalgar.