Images

A photograph of a British Grant tank driver in the North Africa Campaign during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

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.