Scapa Flow Malcolm Brown

Name: Scapa Flow By Malcolm Brown
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Scapa Flow by Malcolm Brown

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Covers the memories of the men and women who served at or around the Royal Navy's famous anchorage in the Orkney Islands in both world wars. This title includes the voices from two world wars, of the men who served on big and small ships who manned lonely batteries, and of the Wrens and other servicewomen who were stationed there.

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Scapa Flow: The Reminiscences of Men and Women Who Served in Scapa Flow in the Two World Wars by Malcolm Brown

Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would be the forbidding destination for many thousands of service personnel and civilians in both World Wars and the location of dramatic incidents such as the loss of the Hampshire with Kitchener on board in 1916, the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919 and the sinking of the Royal Oak at anchor by U-boat U-47 at the beginning of the Second World War. It was a vital start-point for both naval wars and these memories capture all the suffering, loss and glory experienced by those who were there.

About Malcolm Brown

MALCOLM BROWN was for many years a BBC documentary producer; in 1966 he co-produced with Patricia Meehan the highly successful film Scapa Flow, which led to the publication of this book. Since 1989 he has been a freelance historian at the Imperial War Museum, and is now best known for his books on military subjects, including Tommy Goes to War and a number of IWM books about the First World War. PATRICIA MEEHAN spent several years as a welfare worker in post-war Germany. She began a long career in television in the USA before joining the BBC, where she became a producer specialising in contemporary history. Upon leaving the BBC she became a writer. Her books The Unnecessary War and A Strange Enemy People deal with aspects of British and German relations before and immediately after the Second World War.

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Sku

GOR005475339

ISBN 13

9781862274099

ISBN 10

1862274096

Title

Scapa Flow: The Reminiscences of Men and Women Who Served in Scapa Flow in the Two World Wars by Malcolm Brown

Author

Malcolm Brown

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

The History Press Ltd

Year published

20080220

Number of pages

288

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