The World Wars

A priest blesses airmen before they depart for a mission to fly over Germany. Credit: www.worldwarwings.com

A German Obergefreiter - taken POW - sits before the burning Reichstag, 1945

Russian sniper taken prisoner by German soldiers following the Battle of Smolensk, July 1941

Damage following a German bombing of London. St. Paul's Cathedral stands in the background. The Imperial War Museum

A fallen German soldiers lies next to a trench from which a British soldier looks out

Unknown German prisoner of war. Photo now in the National Library of Scotland

Shrapnel explodes over a trench filled with Canadian soldiers, Battle the Somme.

French bayonet charge in the Argonne. Colourised by Royston Leonard

9 German Heinkel He 11 Bombers crossing the English Channel for the Battle of Britain, 1940. Currently in the Bundesarchiv.

German soldiers in the Soviet Union, 1941

German POWs help carry in Canadian troops wounded from the Vimy Ridge, 1917

French soldiers at Verdun

A wounded German prisoner is helped along railroad tracks by an Englishman, 1916

Soldiers struggle to get a cannon through the muck 

French soldiers in a bayonet charge in the remnants of the Argonne forest, ca. 1915

Bombardment of the Cathedral in Rheims, 1914