Unlike most earlier works, Miller devotes just 14 pages to the ship’s 83 minute fight off the River Plate with three Commonwealth cruisers ... Then he gives us a short, concise account of the battle.

This Sunday, December first members of the HMS Ajax and River Plate Veterans leave for Chile, Uruguay and Argentina to recall events of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate ...

The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate ...