The Battle of France began on 10th May 1940 when the Germans attacked into Holland, Belgium and France. With a couple of weeks the Netherlands were overrun, the Belgians had surrendered and the British and French were in retreat to the coast around the port of Dunkirk. Nearly 400,000 Allied servicemen were contained in a […]
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During the Second World War thousands of women from Britain and the Commonwealth served in uniform or in some direct capacity to assist with the war effort. None were fighters, but they were on the front line as WW2 saw the Home Front become as deadly as the battlefield. The images here featured in an […]
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Today is 6th June: the anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces landed on the Normandy coastline. D-Day and Normandy has prompted thousands of books, and during the campaign many thousands of photos were taken on both sides of the battlefield. These are a small selection of rarely seen images. 1. Rommel’s Asparagus, Utah Beach This […]
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He took the defining photo of the U.S.S.R.’s victory over Nazi Germany, although many of his photographs were heavily doctored or staged for Soviet propaganda purposes. But instead of accolades from communist authorities, Yevgeny Khaldei — born 100 years ago in 1917 — struggled to remain employed as anti-Semitism swept through the Soviet Union. Yevgeny Khaldei […]
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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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Immortalised in the film A Bridge Too Far, Operation Market Garden was General Bernard Montgomery‘s bold plan in September 1944 to advance more than 80 miles into enemy held territory in the Netherlands, by moving up a narrow corridor of roads using ground troops, and then drop Allied Airborne forces at key points along the way […]
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Colour photographs in a new book from the Imperial War Museums vividly bring to life moments from WW2 including troops in training and Winston Churchill and his chiefs of staff. Source: The Second World War in colour | Daily Mail Online
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