Nothing Seems As Pretty As The Past.

Letter to Adolf Hitler, written by Gandhi at the outset of the Second World War.

Stacks of cannon balls during The American Civil War

histoire-fanatique:

Tribute to Erwin Rommel a.ka The Desert Fox(1891-1944)

It was his leadership of German and Italian forces in the North African campaign that established the legend of the Desert Fox. He is considered to have been one of the most skilled commanders of desert warfare in the conflict. He later commanded the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion in Normandy. As one of the few generals who consistently fought the Western Allies (he was never assigned to the Eastern Front), Rommel is regarded as having been a humane and professional officer. His Afrikakorps was never accused of war crimes. Soldiers captured during his Africa campaign were reported to have been treated humanely. Furthermore, he ignored orders to kill captured commandos, Jewish soldiers and civilians in all theaters of his command.

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The abandoned gasmasks of schoolchildren; Pripyat, Ukraine. 

streetcar-named-saltwater:

Ulysses S. Grant and his son, Jesse Root, on the porch of their home in Galena, Ill.

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bendu:

London, 90 years ago.

lostsplendor:

Assemblage of the Statue of Liberty, Paris c. 1883 via The New York Public Library

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houseofrandom:

German troops in Belgium, 1940

collective-history:

West Berliners looking over a portion of the Berlin Wall at the time of its construction. East German soldiers looking back, West Berlin, Germany, August 1961.

Don McCullin—Contact Press Images

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