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Black and white images of soldiers in trenches and camps from historical conflicts, illustrating the hardships and realities of war.

German World war one soldiers under fire, in a trench

English troops use a mortar to target the enemy during world war one 1916

First world War british soldiers in trenches on the western Front circa 1915

Photo collection First World War. Salonie. A Six inch Howputzer In Action. 1914-1918}. Greece, Saloniki

Serbian artillery soldiers defending their frontier against Austro-Hungarian attack; 1915 during the first world war

A suspected nationalist spy, is executed in the Catalan area by a Republican firing squad, during the Spanish Civil War

Japanese allied forces in action in Kiao-Chau against the Germans. 1914

German World war one soldiers emerge under fire, to attack a French position

Officers of an international mission in a reinforced change in the Karst Mountains; Une Redoute Blindée and Carso Visitée Par les officiers des Missions Alliées. - Au Premier Plan, UN Officer Japonais .. Soldiers of various nationalities greet each other before the entrance of a camouflaged appearance. They are officers of England, France, Russia, Japan and Italy. In the foreground on the right a Japanese officer. Part of photo album Medical mission H. de Rothschild to the Italian Front 1916.

Military saw Gubin. .

Infantry, Genicourt, northern France, c1914-c1918. Artist: Unknown.

World War 1 - An artillery position is set up on the French front during the Champagne offensive, September 1915.

Excl.hofmann at her.309 Michalaowka.

Combat exercises of a military unit at Ghinda, Eritrea, Italo-Abyssinian War, photograph by Eduardo Ximenes (1852-1932), from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIII, No 20, May 17, 1896.

Photo collection First World War. Back from the trenches .. Six. Senegalese Were The Only Men Remaining ... Company After An Attack on Chemin-des ladies .... April 16, 1917. France

12. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 177, Use of weapons, Mauser rifles, Military drums, Group portraits with 10 people, 1914, Dresden, Schützen beim Sturmangriff, Germany

Replacement team at the TonezzoLateau.

Italian soldiers resting near a crucifix, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 18, May 6, 1917.

War album 107, picture 32875.

events First World War WWI Western Front German 15 cm navy gun in position 16th field artillery regiment late 1914 early 1915 photo postcard,

Allied infantry column encamped on the peninsula of Gallipoli, countryside of Gallipoli, Turkey, World War I, photo by Agostino from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 19, May 9, 1915.

The picture shows a column soldiers who have to pull their artillery self during the movement.Next to the they see two projectiles lying in the grass .. The picture shows a column soldiers who have to pull their artillery herself during the movement.Next to they see two projectiles lying in the grass.

Artillery Observatory and machine gun stood made of iron concrete beam.

After The Fire Blitz Air Raid On London -- Soldiers who helped to clear up the damage, with an effigy which was not touched by the fire ½. April 1, 1941. (Photo by L.N.A.).

Emperor Charles I in South Tyrol (on the Panarotta).

High mountain wire cable car built by Oberleutnant Kuderna. .

The caption on this photo that dates to the early 1920s reads: Americans in shell holes in No Man's Land preparing for the gas waves coming toward them.

Conquered Ital. Suggested at Romans 1.11.17. .

Unexpectedly our "cleaners up" come to grips with a party of Germans isolated in a captured village..

Fotocollectie Eerste Wereldoorlog. With the Serbians on the Balkan front. A view on the Serbian trenches. 1914-1918}. Balkan

Military Funeral in Aleutians Islands

Photo collection First World War. The Front in France. Boche Prisoners Coming in from Thiepval. 1914-1918}. France, Thiepval

Soldier loading trench mortar with bomb at Diksmuide in Flanders during the First World War, Belgium, Europe

Soldiers including a foreign observer at a car in France. Part of photo album from a army exercise in Southwest France in 1902.

Soldier with Rifle and Bugle. Artist: Unknown (French). Date: 1880s-90s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The heir to the throne and later Kaiser Karl at the inspection of the troupe of the throne follower and later Emperor Karl at the inspection of the troupe, probably the reserve of the 61st infantry division, the 16th mountain brigade. Admission in September 1915 (before the beginning of the 3rd IssonzoLay). The recording was probably in Schönpass, possibly also in Dornberk (Dornberg,) the commamous of the 16th corps

Sturmübungen in Mezzocorona.

This photo, dating to before 1922, relates to World War I. The caption reads: Heavy guns at Chateau-Thierry made victory possible.

Battery of the 53rd division, 1918, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

A present for the Boches (the Germans) : Loading a French howitzer. World War 1.

War album 95, picture 28376.

Photo collection First World War. English soldiers are milking a cow that is left behind in a destroyed village. 1917

Skoda 30.5 cm Mortar during loading.

Resting team on Hermada 28.8.17. .

Photo collection Spaarnestad topics. C. Nederlands Front - Meidagen '40. Repro's telex messages and newspaper pages. A unit German Cavalerists has passed a barbed wire. May 1940. The Netherlands

Archduke Leopold Salvator at the observational status in Creino.

Military road block at junction Ramleh-Lydda Road, later with shade erection, closer. 1939, Israel, Ramlah

Assembling a piece of artillery of the Italian Army, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 13, March 26, 1916.

Mine advertising course 12 cm grenade launcher.

Russian soldiers from a motorised division, rest on the eastern front during world war one, 1916

An Active Service Conference on the Western Front, First World War, 1917, (c1920). Artist: Unknown

2nd Battalion and 3rd Battalion, 442nd Infantry, near Beaumont, France circa 10/29/1944 .

Brig.Stab.General Straub.28.8.17. .

Destruction by departing German army is reviewed by French forces entering the town of Clarency during the Second Battle of Artois, from 9 May 18 June 1915. the Western Front during the First World War.

Photo collection First World War. The British Advance in The West. Artillery Observers Watching The Bombardment - Pozières 10/7/16. July 10, 1916. France, Pozières

Flanders (Belgium), December 1915. Breakfast time in a shelter for English soldiers.

World war Two: Free French General de Lattre reviews tanks

Aviator guardian in Veneto 20.2.18. .

Artillery observation stand.

'Hunting for German Snipers on the Western Front', First World War, c1915, (c1920). '...a French raid on a ruined farmhouse between the opposing lines'. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume IV, edited by Frank A Mumby. The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920

First Italian line at Quota 208 South, Karst region, Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIII, No 41, October 8, 1916.

Emergency association of a wounded behind the campfront 17.1.18. .

Shabs, storm exercises: inspecting the storm course exercise by Feldmarschall Freiherr Conrad von Hötzendorf. .

American officers inspecting the ruins of Montfaucon after its capture by the Americans. Brigadier General A.S. Fleming, U.S.A., and Major A.L. Bulwinkle seen leading the inspection. Photograph released by the A.E.P. Censor. (Caption for image 111-SC-23694)

Masty.

Exercise shooting..

8. Marchbatillion, Captain butcher of the 31st nagyse level Infantry regiments in the march to the front on the street. .

Field train construction at Piave.

The Katyn massacre of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (primarily military officers), by the Soviet NKVD, based on a proposal from Lavrentiy Beria to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. The number of victims is estimated at about 22,000.Photo from 1943 exhumation of mass grave of polish officers killed by NKVD in Katy Forest in 1940

Photo collection First World War. The British Western Front in France. Putting a 80 pounder Into position. 1914-1918}. France

Introduced Russian prisoners in Podhajce.

A Heavy 6 Inch Gun in operation during World War I

'Canada's Great Day at Courcelette', 1917. The Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15-22 September 1916) was fought during the Battle of the Somme, the Canadian Corps fought for the first time. From "The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume VII. The Autumn Campaign of 1916", edited by J. A. Hammerton. The Amalgamated Press, Limited, London, 1917

Austrian troops executing Serbs in world war one 1914

An hour of rest outside the trenches, Italian Army at the front, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 44, October 31, 1915.

Montenegrin soldiers carrying mountain artillery, Montenegro, First Balkan War, photograph by Aldo Molinari, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIX, No 43, October 27, 1912.

World War 1 - French soldiers look nervously from the limited shelter offered by their trenches at the beginning of the Battle of Champagne, 1915.

The picture shows a wounded English pilot brought to captivity.Oriiginal text: "captured Englishmen bring a wounded companion to a German dressing station."The picture shows a wounded English pilot that is brought to captivity.oriiginaltext: "captured Englishmen bring a wounded companion to a German dressing station.

Scene in the city of Hiroshima, Japan after the Atomic Bomb attack - late 1945 or early 1946

01/01/1937. A break to Warm Your Hands on the Stove, without losing sight of the Parapet.

Soldiers resting in temporary trenches on the Soca (Isonzo) built by the Military Genius under the enemy fire, Italian advance beyond the Soca (Isonzo), Italy, World War I, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 26, 27 June 1915.

War album 106, picture 32648.

Pfetterhouse, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France, Switzerland at the Swiss border , 1917 - Alsace - Paul Castelnau (photographic section of the armies) - (June) (French - Pfetterhouse , Haut-Rhin , Alsace , France , Suisse A la frontière Suisse). Military uniform, border, front, Clothing, First World War, France, pfetterhouse, on the Swiss border

Officers of the Cavalry Squadron of the Second Brigade (II). Front of the Polish Legions in Bukowina, Janowski, Stanisław (1866 1942)

Artillery observation stand in the swarm line at ptycze.

Daniëlse, PJ, Middelburg, Straaten, Gebroeders van, Flood in Zeeland, Postcard, black and white. Flood March 12, 1906., picture postcard, paper, height 9 cm, width 14 cm, printer, 1906 - 1906, first quarter 20st century, first quarter 20th century, printing, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Aviator payroll.

16.4 cm cannon used by the German Army 1916, during World War One

Mine launcher at Piave-Damm 19.1.18. .

Infantry section guarding a railway line, 1917, Hauts de France, France, Europe

German artillery in a town in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, Italy, World War II, photograph by Weltbild from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year LXXII, No 1, January 7, 1945.

Illustration from a nineteenth century edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' a novel by Daniel Defoe. The book was first published on 25 April 1719. It relates the story of Robinson Crusoe, stranded on a desert Island for 28 years and his subsequent fight for survival.

"i VIVA LA ALEGRIA!" picture postcards

N.Y. Nat'l Guard manouevres, Peekskill, 2/21/14 i.e., 2/21/15

Wound transport through the Raiblestollen. Lower lift station in Henkelstollen. .

Game in sight!. Photogravure by André & Sleigh from photo. 19th century. Colorised.

Vidor, entrance to the big cavern. .

Photograph of Francoist Spanish legionnaires with a captive. Dated 20th Century

George V, King of Britain (1865 - 1936), pictured in Field-Marchal's service uniform and steel helmet on a visit to the Western Front at the devasteted battleground at Wytschaete ridge, during the First World War, landing in France on 3 July, the King spent the following day with General Sir Herbert Plumer's Army 1917

2 St. 15cm M.99 / 9 Ekrasit-grenades 1 St. 15cm M.14. Granat-Schrapnell.

Ochandiano (Álava), July 1936. Spanish Civil War. The town of Ochandiano after conquering the first line of the reds.

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