Images

A photograph showing Allied troops landing in Algeria, North Africa as part of Operation Torch, the Allied North Africa Landings of November 1942. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the United States Army general George Patton (1885-1945). Patton was a key commander in the Second World War (1939-45).

An 1847 lithograph by Eduard Kaiser of the German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife, also a composer and concert pianist, Clara Schumann (1819-96).

An 1850 photograph of the German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Johann Anton Völlner, Hamburg

A lithographic print of the house where the composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was born in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. The house is today a museum dedicated to the composer.

The English king Aethelred II, aka Aethelred the Unready, (r. 978-1016). Illuminated manuscript, The Chronicle of Abindon, c. 1220. MS Cott. Claude B.VI folio 87, verso. (The British Library)

A 17th-century print by Matthäus Merian showing the German city of Frankfurt am Main around 1617.

The cover of Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608 by Professor Maximilian Miguel Scholz. (Association of University Presses)

Professor Maximilian Miguel Scholz, author of Strange Brethren: Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608. (Association of University Presses)

Portrait of George Washington (1732-1799), oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, 1797. White House, East Room, Washington, D.C.