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The
young Emperor Haile Selassie visits the battle front at Dessye, after it
has been bombed by Italian aircraft
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The First World War
A nurse serves tea to British walking wounded. Nurses
on the Western Front were to give the most vivid accounts of the
terrible slaughter there. Many were unpaid volunteers.
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The War in Turkey
Civilian victims in Turkey, 1914, thought to be
Armenians: a hugely controversial episode, which still reverberates
today. The Armenians had murdered several prominent Turks whom they
believed responsible for their oppression.
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Civil War
in Russia
A young Bolshevik volunteer, grenades in his bandolier. This kind of
action rifle would see service in several wars to come.
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The Long
March
In 1934 the Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung retreated with100,000 of
his followers from south to north China, a distance of 5000 miles.
October 1935, some 30,000 survived.
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The
Spanish Civil War
More than a million people are said to have been killed in the
Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The scene is Republicans surrender to
Nationalist troops on the Samosierra front. |
The
Spanish Civil War
By April 1939 Franco had secured his hold on Madrid, and many of the
city's inhabitants, such as this woman, returned to find their homes
pulverized by the last artillery and air attacks
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War in Europe 1939-45
Jews from the Warsaw ghetto surrender after their
ill-fated uprising in April 1943. About 300,000 Jews were crammed into
the ghetto; three years later only about 60,000 had survived
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2nd World War
The Western allies mounted major amphibious assault
in three different theatres: the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the
Pacific. The biggest was on D-Day, 6 June 1944, the beginning of
Operation Overlord for the liberation of Europe. The scene shows the
initial assault that was backed up by 'Mulberry Harbour', a port built
of ships and pontoons of the Normandy beaches.
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2nd World War
Millions had to abandon homes wrecked from bombing
raids and the advance and retreat of armies in central Europe
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2nd World
War
Strategic
Bombing of Germany
The RAF,
joined later by the 8th and 5th US Tactical Air Forces, carried out
extensive strategic bombing raids on Germany. They did not stop the
steady increase of industrial output until after 1943, however. Many of
the victims were civilians, among them thousands of refugees killed in
Dresden in February 1945. The scene is the remains of an apartment house
after a raid on Cologne.
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2nd World War
The ultimate goal for the Russians was Berlin. Here
the Red Flag flies above the shattered Reichstag building, 2 May 1945.
The battle for Berlin cost the Russians up to 60,000 lives, and it
took four days to take the last few blocks in the heart of the city.
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2nd World
War
Tears of Defeat
a 15-year-old
German soldier breaks down in despair.
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The Greek Civil War
Some of the bitterest fighting was along the mountain
border with Albania. Here is a priest sips his coffee as officers plan
the assault on Mount Kiapha.
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The
Hungarian Uprising
In late October 1956 the Hungarians attempted to
overthrow the 'Communist' regime, installing Imre Nagy as their leader.
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Liberation
and Confrontation
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was the icon of Marxist
national liberation movements in Latin America in the 196s.
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Prague Spring
The Soviet T-55 tanks watched from a café in the
centre of town, 29 August 1968.
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Korea 1950
-1953
An American-equipped South Korean soldier patrols
gingerly after the American-led amphibious attack and capture of Inchon,
1950. |
Korea 1950
-1953
South Korean 'political' prisoners being rounded up at
Pusan.
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Algeria
More than a million died in the
war of Algerian independence, 1954-62. Here is a scene of devastation
after bombing by FLN gueriellas, who would conceal their explosive in
ice cream or the frames of bicycles.
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War in Vietnam
Soldiers of the National Liberation Front (Vietcong) firing their
heavy machine gun at attacking American aircraft, April 1969.
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War in Vietnam
Anti-war Movement in USA
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War in Vietnam
Vietcong captives being marched through the rice field.
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War in Vietnam
A US aircraft destroyed on the runway at the fortress of Khe
Sanh, March 1968.
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Indian Independence and Partition
Dead and wounded after the 'Direct Action Day' which
developed into pitched battles between Hindus and Muslims in Calcuta in
1946, the year before independence. |
Bangladesh
The India - Pakistan war of 1971
led to the creation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. The new state
was born in another round of communal savagery, this time the guerrillas
of the Mukhti Bahini turning on 'collaborators' with the Pakistan
regime. |
Bangladesh
Bengalis roped together, about to be shot after
the fall of Dacca, December 1971.
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The Birth of Israel, 1948
Israeli infantry in a full assault
against the Egyptians in Negef October 1948.
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The Suez War of 1956
British helicopters flying over
landing craft approaching, November 1956 Port Said - the same means were
to be used by the British to retake the Falklands 25 years later. |
The Arab-Israeli War of 1973
Egyptian prisoners |
Civil War in Lebanon
The civil war erupted in 1975 and
dragged on for years. Militiamen at a barricade in the Chyal area of
Beirut, breaching the 22nd cease-fire agreement in three months,
December 1975.
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Civil War in Yemen
PSD To HTML conversion is important to webmasters because they cannot use the PSD file as it is for their web pages. if you need PSD To HTML conversion service save yourself some time, effort and money and send it in to the professionals. Civil war erupted between
republicans and royalists in Yemen in 1962, and fighting was to go on
sporadically for the next 30 years. President Nasser of Egypt backed the
anti-British republicans. The scene is a British soldier manhandles a
local resident during disturbances in the Crater district of Aden, where
17 British soldiers were to be seized and tortured to death by
insurgents.
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The Iran-Iraq War 1979-1988
A group of Iraqi prisoners being indoctrinated in
Iran's Islamic revolution.
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The Falklands War (1982)
The Frigate HMS Antelope
explodes after a bomb 'cooks' amidships. |
The Falklands War
British wounded after the
destroyer HMS Sheffield was sunk by an Exocet missile
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The Falklands War
British troops march across the
main island for the final attack on the tiny capital, Stanley. |
The Iran-Iraq War
Tankers had been prime targets in
both Gulf Wars: between Iraq and Iran (1979-1988) and over Kuwait
(1990-1991). The scene is the Cypriot tanker Pivot after an
Iranian attack, December 1987.
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Civil War in Angola
UNITA soldiers train their
recruits in the use of Chinese weapons, of a distinctly primitive
design, at a camp along the Zambian border.
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Nicaragua
A band of Contra right-wing
guerrillas in training in the jungle of Nicaragua. They were covertly
equipped with arms and aid on the initiative of President Reagan in a
complicated deal involving funds from Iran, though Congress had vetoed
direct military military aid to the fighters.
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Union with Greece
A Greek orthodox priest shoulders
his shotgun in the service of the Greek 'Home Guard' in Nicosia, March
1964.
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Rwanda
Bodies being taken for mass
burial, Goma.
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Liberia
The merciless vendetta: a
militiaman of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front shoots an
unarmed prisoner, who has begged for his life.
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The War in Chechenya
A woman in a village near Gudermes
shouts at the Russians to go away.
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The Siege of Sarajevo
A woman and her daughter walk past
one of the gutted apartment blocks, 1 April 1996. Am estimated
10,000 Sarajevans died in the vindictive guerrilla battle, in which
communities savaged each other. |
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