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My grandpa in his 20s. My grandma told me he was the most handsome man she has ever met.
Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov. Left: 1980 (declared KIA). Right: 2013 (found living as a healer in Herat). He had forgotten the Russian language entirely.
If This Muslim Woman Offends You, You Are A Bigot, Racist, Sexist, Islamphobe (2017)
Three Generations || An Australian-Aboriginal family whose photograph was used in a project by the Australian government to show how Aboriginal people can be assimilated into white Australian society by ‘breeding out the colour’, 1947.
This is Katherine McHale Slaughterback, otherwise known as Rattlesnake Kate. She fought off 140 rattlesnakes in 1925 using just three bullets and a “No Hunting” sign. (1024×601)
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  • 3 girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)
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  • ‘Come on in, I’ll treat you well!I used to know your daddy! ‘ Anti-war poster by C. D. Batchelor from 1936 showing how European young men are getting involved in war
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  • A boy carrying oversized pretzels in post-war Germany, 1950s. A symbol of recovery, resilience, and the joy of simple things.
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  • A caricature of the war in Afghanistan, 2019
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  • A Rhodesian soldier wearing sneakers takes a smoke break during the Rhodesian Bush War, 1970s
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  • Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who hid in the jungle in Guam for 27 years to avoid capture, weeps upon his return to Japan in February 1972.
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  • Two Soviet soldiers sitting together Circa 1970
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  • U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s
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  • German soldiers hang teenagers suspected of aiding Soviet soldiers, 1942
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  • Auschwitz officer Irma Grese on trial for war crimes at only 22 years old, September 1945
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  • A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, Serbia, 1914.
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  • Soviet cartoon from the Second World War (1942) showing a concerned Goebbels inspecting soldiers at the front while holding a propaganda image of a cheery soldier behind his back. Artist: Kukryniksy.
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  • A mother in Chicago offers her children for sale during extreme post-war poverty. USA, 1948.(750 × 600)
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  • Soviet soldiers holding the captured German banners at the Moscow Victory Parade, June 24, 1945
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  • Former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny in Madrid, Spain, 1970. Skorzeny led the famous 1943 Gran Sasso raid in which Mussolini was rescued from captivity. After the war he escaped allied captivity & worked as an arms dealer, advising authoritarian leaders like Nasser & Peron, as well as Mossad. (1300×859)
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  • A marine mourns the loss of a friend during the battle of Okinawa 1945
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  • Wehrmacht troops smile and laugh after handing out cigarettes to a group of Ukrainian children. 1941.
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  • Waffen-SS troops taking a loyalty oath at a Nazi rally in Munich, September 5th, 1938.
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  • American soldiers storm Omaha beach, D-Day, June 6th 1944
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  • Jewish-American soldiers conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Germany on March 18, 1945.
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