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Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Number of people mobilised in World War II

October 28, 2019
1 min read

The Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history – involving 30 belligerent nations, it was fought from the far

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Behind The Image/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Spectators at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919

October 7, 2019
2 mins read

Perched on sofas and peering in from every angle, these Allied officers were obviously desperate to catch a glimpse of the momentous

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Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Liberation of Paris, August 1944

March 15, 2019
1 min read

De Gaulle strode down the centre of the grand route, hailed by banners that proclaimed, 'Long live de Gaulle' and 'De Gaulle

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Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Prague Spring, 1968

June 15, 2018
1 min read

Fifty years ago, during the so-called ‘Prague Spring’ of 1968, the citizens of Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few brief, tantalising months of liberation

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Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: the struck Japanese fleet carrier Amagi, 24 July 1945

September 15, 2017
1 min read

Here lies the toppled Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi . Photographed towards the very end of the Second World War, it is a

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Behind The Image/WWI

BEHIND THE IMAGE: U-Boat on Hastings beach, April 1919

June 15, 2017
1 min read

U-boat 118 had been launched in February 1918, and in the last couple of months of the war dispatched two British ships

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Behind The Image/Modern

BEHIND THE IMAGE: COSSACK BAY, BALAKLAVA, 1855 BY ROGER FENTON

October 28, 2016
1 min read

This bustling black-and-white photograph offers an atmospheric view of a natural harbour crowded with ships, campaign tents, livestock and supplies. Titled Cossack

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Behind The Image/Modern/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Wind tunnel testing, Messerschmitt Bf 109, 1940

August 22, 2016
1 min read

It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from

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Behind The Image/Modern/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: captured Luftwaffe crewmen, London Underground, 1940

July 15, 2016
1 min read

In photography, timing is all – and there is no better example of the dictum than this gem of a snapshot capturing a surprising moment

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Behind The Image/WWII

BEHIND THE IMAGE: Churchill visits Caen, July 1944

April 15, 2016
1 min read

Churchill travelled incessantly during the war. In this picture, taken in Caen around six weeks after the D-Day landings, we find visiting

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