Ebook: Scapa: Britain's famous wartime naval base
Author: Jim Miller
- Tags: HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain, Navy-yards and naval stations, Navy-yards and naval stations--Scotland--Scapa Flow, History, Navy-yards and naval stations -- Scotland -- Scapa Flow, Scapa Flow (Scotland) -- History, HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain, Scotland -- Scapa Flow
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Birlinn
- City: Edinburgh;Scapa Flow (Scotland);Scotland;Scapa Flow
- Language: English
- epub
A fascinating book, in which every reader will find something she/he never knew'? Scots Magazine 'an interesting insight into life in a naval base during two world wars? Broadly Boats Scapa Flow, one of the greatest naval bases in history, resonates through the annals of the Royal Navy during the two great wars of the twentieth century. It was from there that the Grand Fleet sailed to Jutland in 1916; from there that Russian convoys set off; and it was in that beautiful, bleak anchorage that the German High Seas fleet committed the greatest act of suicide ever seen at sea - 'The Grand Scut.
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