Images

Charger with a qilin from China, c. 1350. This porcelain dish is painted with a cobalt glaze to depict a qilin, a mythical creature, in the style of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A view of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. The cemetery commemorates U.S. soldiers who died during the D-Day Normandy Landings of June 1944 and subsequent fighting in the Second World War...

A photograph showing sections of a Mulberry Harbour at the Normandy Landings which began on D-Day 6 June 1944. The Mulberry Harbour was a floating structure which allowed vehicles and supplies to be landed without the need to capture a port...

A photograph showing a British armoured column moving inland from Gold Beach following the Normandy Landings of D-day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing a British pursuit tank about to land at Gold Beach the day after D-day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing British Commando troops landing on the Normandy beaches (Gold Beach here) during D-Day 6 June 1944. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph taken in March 1944 showing a gun emplacement, part of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall defences along the coastline of occupied northern Europe. The defences were built in preparation for the Allied landings which came on D-Day...

A photograph showing troops of the 1st US Infantry Division, 5th US Corps attacking Omaha beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)

Buffalo Hunt Under the Wolf-Skin Mask by artist George Catlin, c. 1832. The painting depicts the practice of the Plains Indians, prior to the arrival of the horse, in which they would disguise themselves as wolves by wearing wolf hides to...

Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.