01187 a2200253 4500 1138873632 20250317100401.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138873636 Taylor & Francis GBP 49.99 BB 01 eng NHW thema HBW bic HIS027000 bisac HIS027150 bisac 940.545941 bisac Eric Grove German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II Volume I: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1939-1941 1 Oxford Routledge 20150407 208 p This is a comnpendium volume of three Battle Summaries or Naval Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for internal use only, these histories are published here for the first time. The documents in this book cover the actions during the period 1939-1941 that resulted in the sinking or immobilising of the German Warships Birsmark and Graf Spee, and record the struggle to rid the seas of the menace of the armed merchants raiders. 1204 1204