Images

A 1942 photograph showing a British RAF Lockheed Hudson flying over the Egyptian pyramids during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

German artillery at the Siege of Tobruk (1941-2) in the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A July 1942 photograph of a British Eighth Army Humber Mk II armoured car during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of General Erwin Rommel and his Chief of Staff, Fritz Bayerlein during the North Africa Campaign of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1941 photograph showing Sikh infantrymen training with mortars and Bren guns as part of the British Eighth Army in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1942 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshal during the Second World War (1939-45). He is here seen in a Grant Tank as he commands the British Eighth Army in North Africa. (Imperial War...

A 1942 photograph of General Erwin Rommel, German general and then field marshall during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A 1943 photograph of General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976), British general and then field marshall during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A scene at the signing of the US Constitution, oil on canvas painting by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.

James Bowdoin II, Patriot leader during the American Revolution and Governor of Massachusetts during Shays' Rebellion (1786-87). Portrait by Robert Feke, 1748.