Images

Learned Man, miniature painting, ink and opaque watercolour on paper, using nim-qalam, which literally means the half-pen technique, by miniaturist Basawan, 1575-80. Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.

This map illustrates the scale and impact of Allied strategic bombing operations against Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945. Conducted by the...

A c. 1944 photograph of a group of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers carpet bombing - when the formation dropped their loads simultaneously.

A 1942-5 photograph of a gunner in the nose of a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber during the Second World War (1939-45).

A U.S. P-51 Mustang fighter and B-17 Flying Fortress bomber at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The Mustang acted as a long-range fighter escort to the B-17 during bombing raids such as those over Germany...

A group of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers over Schweinfurt, Germany. The target, hit in August 1943, was several ball-bearing factories crucial to the German war effort.

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The B-17 was the main US bomber in WWII in the European theatre of the conflict and saw service in the Middle East and Pacific amongst other...

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight at the Chino Airshow in California, 2014. The B-17 was the main US bomber in WWII in the European theatre of the conflict.

A scene from the Battle of Cowpens (17 January 1781), in which the life of American Colonel William Washington (center, atop the white horse) is saved by an unnamed Black soldier (left, firing pistol). Painting by William Ranney...

Portrait of Sir Banastre Tarleton, one of the most infamous British officers during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782. National Gallery, London.