WWI face

Harry Drinkwater signed up to a 'Pals Battalion' in 1914 and was sent to the front line. In his diary extracts he writes about his brutal introduction to trench life.

Evacuation from Tobruk, 1941

Armistice Day

Two-Minute Silence, Armistice Day. London, 1919.

A young smile in 1944

France, March 1915

Remember

2 July 1942,82 children of Lidice, Czechoslovakia were handed over to the Łódź Gestapo office. They were transported to the extermination camp at Chełmno and they were gassed to death. Sculpture by Marie Uchytilová

... never leave a man behind. Unknown

Still standing. Unknown.

Cologne Cathedral is one of few buildings left standing after World War II air raids in the area. 1944.

Fashion war. Unknown.

During the Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944), allied soldiers decorated their helmets with lace curtains, after realizing it provided excellent camouflage in the snow.

Nothing left

German prisoner of war returning to his home town.
By Tony Vaccaro

Unknown

 

Dancing in the sky. Unknown.

Belgium, May 1917

A WWI allied soldier and a Red Cross working dog in Flanders. Unknown.

Christmas in Vietnam

1971 by John Alfred Ford

Old parfume

Armin T Wegner, 1890s

The Big War. Unknown

Captain, my captain...

Captain Bruce Bairnsfather (1888 - 1959), British soldier, artist and cartoonist. 1918, by Pirie MacDonald.

Human horse

1915, 650 Officers and Enlisted Men of the Auxiliary Remount Depot No3 26, Camp Cody, Deming NM

Civil war

Confederate prisoner after the battle of Gettysburg. Detail, Mathew Brady, July 3, 1863.

Homecoming soldier

Ernst Haas -  Vienna, 1946-1948