{"id":208,"date":"2017-06-06T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamulation.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-08-20T22:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T22:20:00","slug":"langsdorff-of-the-graf-spee-prince-of-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Langsdorff of the Graf Spee &#8211; Prince of Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/langsdorff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/langsdorff-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/langsdorff-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/seamulation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/langsdorff-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/seamulation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/langsdorff-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/seamulation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/langsdorff.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Langsdorff of the Graf Spee &#8211; Prince of Honor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Author: Joseph Gilbey<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ISBN: 0968599400<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gilbey book about Langsdorff, the Graf Spee Captain provide a different perspective on the fatal cruise of the pocket battleship. His portray of the Chivalry spirited Langsdorff help understand the final scuttling to avoid unnecessary bloodshed. The key information relevant to the military action are the weakness of the Arado 196 for high sea operations and the immaturity of the Diesel engine system which was susceptible to overheat in warm water. A large part of the book review the events in Montevideo, not only the diplomatic and political game but also the internal discussion of the senior officers on both the German and the British sides.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the military side of the events not as complete as the \u201cThe Price of Disobedience\u201d from Eric J. Grove but an interesting and different account of the events and a unique inside on the humans involved in this tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Langsdorff of the Graf Spee &#8211; Prince of Honor Author: Joseph Gilbey ISBN: 0968599400 Gilbey book about Langsdorff, the Graf Spee Captain provide a different perspective on the fatal cruise of the pocket battleship. His portray of the Chivalry spirited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/?p=208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-dec-1939-battle-of-the-river-plate","category-bibliography-13-dec-1939"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamulation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}