Story of the New Zealand light cruiser's service in the Second World War, including her part in the battle with the Graf Spee off Montevideo and later the ship's actions in the Pacific.

From the blurb: "As author Jack Harker says, `Achilles was the men who served in her.' As one of those men he chronicles her service with the RNZN: peacetime training and Island cruising; the endless tedium of escort duties and of fruitless hunting for elusive German commerce-raiders; grim drama at River Plate; early actions in the Pacific war, and the closing months of that unequalled naval conflict ... This book is a splendid tribute to ... the New Zealanders who lived - and died - in Achilles."

264 page First Edition hard-cover from 1980. Ex-Library Book, so some library stamps on the Book but still in very good reading condition, and has been kept under a plastic cover. Has many b/w picture plates through the book.

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