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 ...

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.

Among the most famous sea fights of World War II, the Plate, in which three British Commonwealth cruisers fought Germany's "pocket battleship" Graf Spee, opened the naval war in the grand old style, ...