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British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588
1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses
Ilya Repin's late 19th-century painting, "The Zaporozhian Cossacks Replying to the Sultan"
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).
The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
The 114 infantry in Paris, July 14, 1927, Leon Gimpel
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
Nigerians use phone booth under a poster against Biafran separatists and their leader, General C. Odumegwu Ojuku. 1967.
“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
The new Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, which opened in February 2023, was built to detain thousands suspected gang members.
Marching Back to the Past: Militarism in El Salvador
The ruins of Cassino, May 1944 - a wrecked Sherman tank and Bailey bridge in the foreground, with Monastery Ridge and Castle Hill
The Nature of World War II
UPA soldiers charge
West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?
Zaporizhians by Józef Brandt, unknown date.
The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers
World War II Memory in Putin's Russia
U.S. General James Van Fleet and Greek War Minister Kanellopoulos walking between lines of soldiers on the island of Makronissos during the Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
soldiers holding guns near a body of water
The Bangladesh Liberation War
Ukrainian refugees board a train in Lviv, February 2022.
West Ukraine’s War Stories: A New Chapter?
Pioneers Palace in Kiev, Ukraine
Ukrainian Architecture at War
Burial detail at Camp O'Donnell after the Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March
American soldiers land near Algiers
Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942
battle at Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
In this 1919 caricature, Ukrainians are surrounded by a Bolshevik (to the north, man with hat and red star), a Russian White Army soldier (to the east, with Russian eagle flag and a short whip), and to the west a Polish soldier, a Hungarian (in pink uniform) and two Romanian soldiers. Wikimedia Commons https://theconversation.com/ukraine-as-a-borderland-a-brief-history-of-ukraines-place-between-europe-and-russia-178168
Ukraine in War and Revolution
a man kneeling down near tributes to fallen heroes
Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Emergency servicemen and volunteers remove rubble and demine territory after Russian shelling, Kyiv, Oblast, 2022.
Ukrainian Architecture at War
A group of Kyiv civilians gather in a basement downtown to make Molotov Cocktails to be used against Russian troops in Kyiv, Ukraine, 2022.
Ukraine in War and Revolution
A memorial to the Heaven’s Hundred in Kyiv. Serhii Kemsky’s photo is in black and white under the words Nebesna sotnia.
Heroes Never Die
Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert
Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain