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    Around Orkney - Paperback
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    Between The Wind And The Water: World Heritage Orkney - C. R. Wickham-Jones - Paperback
    The archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Caroline Wickham-Jones looks at the four monuments: the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness and the burial mound of Maeshowe and explores the Neolithic world in which they were built.
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    Black Saturday: Tragedy At Scapa Flow - Alexander McKee - Paperback
    In the early hours of Saturday 14th October 1939, the Royal Navy suffered a stunning loss. The battleship Royal Oak, stationed inside the main base of the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, was shaken by a number of explosives. She became a furnace, rolled over and within minutes, had gone to the bottom, with nearly 800 men trapped inside.
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    Circle Of Light: The Catholic Church In Orkney Since 1560 - Alison Gray - Paperback
    Alison Gray reconstructs the story of the Catholic Church in Orkney in this text. From the pre-Reformation Church, through the years of oppression, the story move to the gradual re-acceptance of Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries
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    Cox's Navy: Salvaging The German High Seas Fleet At Scapa Flow 1924-1931 - Tony Booth - Hardback
    On a mid-summer's day in 1919, the interned German Grand Fleet was scuttled by their crews at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. This book describes the biggest salvage operation ever undertaken, and the role played by Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant.
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    Fine That: An Orkney Island Life - Julia Welstead; Moonart - Paperback
    Three years ago Julie Welstead moved from Edinburgh to Orkney to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Every week, she writes a column for the Weekend section of 'The Scotsman'. This book is the accumulation of those articles to date.
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    The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking Of The German Fleet At Scapa Flow In 1919 - Dan Van der Vat - Paperback
    The scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow has beome folk legend in both Germany and Britain. This book retells the story, with contemporary photographs and eye-witness accounts, and an interesting new perspective.
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    Images In Time: A Photographic History Of Orkney's Past - J. W. Sinclair - Hardback
    This volume of photographs by James William Sinclair serves as a pictorial reminder of Orkney's past, and shows how the county has changed with the passage of time.
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    The Islands Of Orkney - Liv Kjörsvik Schei - Hardback
    This new history of Orkney and its people focuses on the folk literature and lore of the inhabited islands and every mainland parish. It also covers the old tales of shipwrecks and the press-gang that have passed down from one generation to another.
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    Jutland To Junkyard: The Raising Of The Scuttled German High Seas Fleet From Scapa Flow - S. C. George - Paperback
    In June 1919 the German High Seas Fleet, one of the most powerful in history, sank in Scapa Flow. From 1924 the fleet was raised, ship by ship, and scrapped. This is the story of the salvage operation and the drama and ingenuity involved.

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