As a powerful German warship terrorized shipping lanes, Allied forces launched a desperate pursuit across the ocean. The hunt ...

Dr Dominic Selwood is a historian and barrister. He is the author of Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers: The History You Weren’t Taught at School (2015), and the crypto-thrillers The Sword of Moses (2013) ...

The Battle of River Plate was fought on 13 December 1939 between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the Allied Naval task force. The location of the battle was off the South American ...

This Christmas Inge Nedden will honor a father she never knew in a land thousands of miles from her native Germany. Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf ...

Key Point: The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. Within six months, the Bismarck ...

World War II got off to a bad start for the British. About two weeks after Poland surrendered to Germany at the end of September 1939 — succumbing to a month of the Nazi blitzkrieg — the British ...

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MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate. The pilot ...