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Nightmare at Scapa Flow
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: H.J. Weaver
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: Birlinn

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"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds
Nightmare at Scapa Flow
Language: en
Pages: 192
Authors: H.J. Weaver
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: Casemate Publishers

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A historian examines what really happened when the British World War II battleship was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Orkney. Sinking the batt
Scapa Flow
Language: en
Pages: 66
Authors: Angus Konstam
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's main fleet anchorage during World Wars I and II. In 1914 and agai
U-47 in Scapa Flow
Language: en
Pages: 157
Authors: Angus Konstam
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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At the outset of World War II, Scapa Flow was supposed to be the safe home base of the British Navy – nothing could penetrate the defences of this bastion. So
Orkney and Scapa Flow at War 1939–45
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Craig Armstrong
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-30 - Publisher: Pen and Sword Military

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“Reminds us of the courage and immense sacrifices made by Orcadians, and tells of the efforts made by the British to protect their remote islanders. Superb.�