Images

Relief ship carrying supplies to Belgium, c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Wanted Immediately. 2,000,000 Garments for destitute Men, Women, and children in occupied Northern France and Belgium. Poster advertising for contributions to the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, during the First World War (1914-1918...

Committee for Relief in Belgium in Lille, France, during the First World War (1914-1918), photo by an unknown photographer, American service personnel from the 1st Aero Squadron, 1916. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

This map illustrates the rise of the Latin Empire (Imperium Romaniae), a Crusader state founded by Western European forces after the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople in 1204. It replaced the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire...

An SS service dress jacket with white metal buttons and Nazi armband. (Imperial War Museums)

A striped jacket which detainees at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz had to wear. (Imperial War Museums)

A late-1930s photograph of Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), leader of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel), and his wife Magarete and daughter Gudrun. (German Federal Archives)

The body of Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), leader of the SS (Schutzstaffel), the Nazi paramilitary group which evolved into a vast police and military organisation. Himmler was captured by Allied troops in the final days of WWII and committed...

US Major General Jacob Brown (1775-1828), engraving Asher Brown Durand after a painting by John Wesley Jarvis. New York Public Library.

Chart Illustrative of the Siege & Defence of Fort Erie. Campaign of 1814, by the War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.