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World War II was horrific in England, with even minors serving in the military long and well. Young Bugle Boys, barely out of grade school, were no exception.

At the close of World War One, the victorious allies ordered that the powerful and undefeated High Seas Fleet present itself for interment until a final peace.

More than forty of the 74 ships of the Imperial German Navy's High Sea Fleet only left their final anchorage as scrap if at all.

Interned at the close of World War One in Scotland the German fleet chose to scuttle itself at anchor rather than surrender

Admiral Karl Donitz's mauraders terrorized the seas with u-boats during World War II. They would sink thousands of war ships, merchant vessels and even passenger ships.

When Hitler launched his invasion of Norway in 1940 only the warships of the Royal Navy stood any chance of stopping him.

In January 1918 the Royal Navy lost two submarines and over 100 men in a tragic wartime accident.

The public buses provide an economical, environmentally friendly and rewarding introduction to both the ancient and modern features of Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The Orkney Islands archipelago has a rich human history dating back to 7000 BCE including Stone Circles, Temples and Burial Cairns from the Neolithic.

The long term causes of World War I begin with the Franco-Prussian War and end with a vastly different system of alliances created by the blunders of the German Kaiser.

The Bismarck was the most famous German battleship of the Second World War. Launched in 1939, Bismarck was the lead ship in her class.

The Chapel built by Italian prisoners of war in the Orkney Islands during World War II turned two unlovely huts into a thing of beauty that proved to be a joy for ever.