Images

A photograph showing a British Rolls-Royce armoured car near Bardia during Operation Compass (9 Dec 40 - 7 Feb 41), the Allied offensive which won several important victories against Italian forces in North Africa during the Western Desert...

A January 1941 photograph showing a British Matilda tank with a captured Italian flag and its way to Tobruk. The attack on Tobruk was part of Operation Compass (9 Dec 40 - 7 Feb 41), the Allied offensive which won several important victories...

A map of Operation Compass (9 Dec 40 - 7 Feb 41), the Allied offensive which won several important victories against Italian forces in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45).

Saint Lucy, oil on canvas by Francisco de Zurbáran, c. 1625-1630. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sir Henry Clinton in 1777, the year before he became commander-in-chief of the British Army in the American Revolution, portrait by John Smart. National Institute of American History and Democracy.

Drawing showing a battle between a Cheyenne warrior (right) and an Osage or Pawnee warrior (left) from a Fort Reno Scout ledger. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

This map illustrates the North Africa Campaign of World War II, spanning from 1940 to 1943 - a series of operations and battles for control of the strategic region between the Allied forces (primarily the British Commonwealth) and the Axis...

A photograph of Polish soldiers during the Siege of Tobruk (Apr-Dec 1941) in the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). Taken in September 1941. (Imperial War Museums)

A formation of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber during the attack on Poland in 1939 in the first year of the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber during the Netherlands campaign in the Second World War (1939-45). (Netherlands Ministry of Defence)