While Scapa Flow is well known for its role as one fo teh world's great naval bases during the two world wars, the Forth and its estuary had an equally extraordinary story to tell. During the First World War, Rosyth was the hedquarters of Admiral Beatty's famous battlecruiser squadron, and the Forth saw the greatest concentration of naval might ever seen as the German fleet steamed to surrender in 1918.
This book contains over a hundred magnificent pictures if Allied and enemy ships, spanning the whole of the twentieth century. It also includes many photgraphs taken around the Forth - Home Guard exercises on the Water of Leith, parades and pillboxes in the centre of Edinburgh, German officers surrendering, the departure of King Olaf of Norway for home in 1945, censored shots of Churchill and the King, as well as the work of the great shipyard at Rpsyth. Together William F. Hendrie's meticulously researched text, these fascinating archival pictures offer a unique glimpse into the history of the Forth and the surrounding area.
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