No index. No footnotes. No scholarship. What's the point? Apparently the author talked to many of the people involved. But we don't know what comes from those interviews and what comes from the author's head.

And then there are the racist attitudes, toward Blacks and Chinese and maybe others. This is perhaps not surprising for a book from the 1950s, but still, it sat very ill. Can't we produce a real history? This might as well be fiction. ( )

762. Death in the South Atlantic: The Last Voyage of the Graf Spee, by Michael Powell (read 1 Jan 1964) When the events regarding the Graf Spee in 1939 were happening it was big news and I followed it excitedly. So when I got this book it was to relive the excitement of those days in 1939, ( )