DEFEAT AT THE FALKLANDS
EDWIN P. HOYT

This book tells of the campaign of the German East Asia naval squadron, based on the colony of Tsingtao in China, which threatened to strangle the trade of Great Britain at the start of the First World War. The fleet, commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee, consisted of the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Dresden and Emden, a considerably more powerful force than the British fleet under Admiral Cradock. The Emden split off from the squadron and conducted raids against British and Russian ships in the Indian and Pacific Oceans until she was sunk on 9 November 1914 by HMAS Sydney. The main German fleet met the British fleet at Coronel on 1 November, and in the battle which followed 1,400 British lives were lost, including that of Admiral Cradock.
The defeat of Coronel was avenged on 8 December, when Admiral Sturdee, with Invincible, Inflexible, Kent and Cornwall met the German fleet which had been joined by Nurnberg. In this final battle of the Southern Seas Admiral von Spee lost his life, the German casualties amounting to 2,000, against British loss of eleven lives. The battle marked the end of German cruiser warfare and established British control over the ocean trade routes.
The book also describes conditions aboard the ships, and highlights the confusions and hazards of sea battles in a style of warfare which has now ceased to exist.
Jacket Map: The Battle of the Falklands: the sinking of the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau

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