The winter of 1940-41 was the season of the Blitz. From St Paul's Cathedral to the East End, from the very heart of the capital to the cities of the midlands, throughout the length and breadth of the land the bombs rained down as Germany attempted to bludgeon Britain into submission. These pictures were sourced from the Mirror Group Newspapers

Some of the greatest dramas of World War II occurred in the skies, where courageous and tenacious fighter pilots battled in dogfights so fierce that the pilots-- and their planes -- became legends in their own time. Their stories continue to capture the imaginations of not only World War II buffs and history fans, but also of many talented artists who painstakingly recreate the most famous battles in vivid detail, and with staggering accuracy. This...

Illustrates the contributions of female lumberjacks, known as Lumber Jills, to the allied war effort.

"Yevgeny Khaldei was born in 1917, just months before the Bolshevik Revolution. While he had only four grades of school - poverty forced him to take a job cleaning steam engines - by the age of fifteen he had crafted a camera for himself out of a cardboard box and his grandmother's spectacles. Before long, his heroic images of Soviet life were appearing in Pravda. At age eighteen, Khaldei was hired by TASS." "By the end of World War II Khaldei was...

Censored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange's unseen photographs are the photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. Presenting 119 images--the majority of which have never been published--this book evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps. Nationally known historians Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro narrate the saga of Japanese American internment: from life before Executive...