In an age when the digital manipulation of images is commonplace, we are now used to seeing ‘colourised’ photographs of classic images from the Second World War. Some of these are good, some less so, some exceptional, like the work of Marina Amaral. However, we often forget that colour photos of warfare date back to […]
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The four battles of Monte Cassino between January and May 1944 saw men from many Allied nations come to fight their way up the road to Rome, dominated by the massif of Monte Cassino with the monastery which looked down like the eyes of the enemy on the battlefields below. Much of the fighting was […]
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When the Soviet Union was invaded during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Russian forces suffered heavy losses in men, material and tanks. Great Britain now no longer stood alone and found an Ally in Russia, so a move was made to supply the Soviet Union with Tanks not just as a symbol of their […]
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