Captain Patrick Dove, I Was Graf Spee's Prisoner (Cherry Tree Books, London & Manchester, 1940)
Siegfried Breyer, Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970 (Doubleday and Company; Garden City, New York, 1973) (originally published in German as Schlachtschiffe und Schlachtkreuzer 1905-1970, J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munchen, 1970). Contains various line drawings of the ship as designed and as built.
Jak P. Malmann Showell, The German Navy in World War Two (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1979), ISBN 0-87021-933-2
Dudley Pope, The Battle of the River Plate (William Kimber & Co, 1956; Republished Pan Books 1974), ISBN 0-330-24020-X
Joseph Gilbey, Langsdorff of the Graf Spee: Prince of Honor, Canada 1999, ISBN 0-9685994-0-0
Joseph Gilbey, Kriegsmarine: Admiral Raeder's Navy - A Broken Dream., Canada 2005, ISBN 0-9685994-1-9
Enrique R. Dick, Tras La Estela del Graf Spee, Buenos Aires 1996, ISBN 950-43-8113-8 (published in Spanish, author is son of a Graf Spee crew member)
Newton, Professor Ronald, The Nazi Menace in Argentina 1931-1947, publ. Board of Trustees, Leland Stanford Junior University 1992: El Cuarto Lado del Triángulo, (publ. Editorial Sudamericana, 1995, ISBN 950-07-1044-7, author supplies a very detailed chapter on the Admiral Graf Spee crew in Argentine internment).
Ricardo E Laurence: Desde Wilhelmshaven a Montevideo: Montevideo 1988.
