Images

Confederate dead in the trenches of Fort Mahone at the end of the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War, photograph by T. C. Roche, 3 April 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

A photograph of the First World War (1914-18) soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the First World War (1914-18) soldier and poet Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). (Imperial War Museums)

A mid-1914 photograph of the German Imperial Navy warship SMS Scharnhorst docked at the German colony of Tsingtao, mainland China. Tsingtao was captured in November 1914 after an amphibious attack by Japanese and British...

A 1918 oil-on-canvas portrait by James McBey of T.E. Lawrence (1888-1935), better known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' for his role in the Arab Revolt, which helped end the Ottoman Empire's domination of the Middle East during...

A recruitment poster urging people to join the British armed forces during the First World War (1914-18). The face on the poster is that of Herbert Kitchener, secretary of state for war (1914-16). Imperial...

A photograph of a British naval convoy in the Atlantic Ocean, a strategy adopted during the First World War (1914-18) to minimise losses to German U-boats. As additional protection, the ships are sailing a zigzag course. Imperial...

A December 1917 photograph of a British soldier kissing a French farm worker under a sprig of mistletoe during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A May 1918 photograph of a German soldier inside the barrel of the massive Paris Gun, an artillery piece used in the Spring Offensive on the Western Front during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums...

A photograph of the Battalion of Death, a Russian military unit composed only of women soldiers, taken during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.