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Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold, in price-clipped dust-jacket. 184pp., Index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. First edition. An absorbing account of the British defeat by Vice-Admiral Graf Spee commanding the East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron of the the Imperial German Navy at the battle of Coronel and the almost instantanteous British reprisal with the Battle of the Falkland Islands just over a month hence. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside covers. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. From a private collection, not ex-libris. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.