Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding ...

Am 13. Dezember 1939 erreichte der deutsche Kreuzer Admiral Graf Spee die Mündung des Río de la Plata mit dem Ziel, britische ...

Across the Atlantic, the hunt for the German warship Admiral Graf Spee had stretched the resolve of the Allied forces to its breaking point. This ship had been wreaking havoc on Allied supply routes ...

On December 20, 1939, a German naval officer by the name of captain Hans Langsdorff put on his uniform, wrapped himself in a German flag, and shot himself in the head. Just three days earlier, ...

From refugees who arrived in London last week, with additional details flashed from Montevideo, came the story of what happened to 300 seamen and ship’s officers taken from nine vessels captured and ...