The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands 1914
The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands 1914
Pen & Sword | 2014 | 180 pages | ISBN: 9781783462797 | ePub (e-book) | 4.3 MB
The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany's most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged immediately.