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Finnish ski troops in Northern Finland in January 1940. Relative strengths of Finnish, German and Soviet troops at the start of the Continuation War in June 1941. In the interwar period Finland maintained an uneasy neutrality. In 1939-1940 it fought the defensive Finnish-Soviet War (1939-1940). Its territorial losses as a result of that conflict were […]

German armour on the move at the beginning of a very long journey. Almost everywhere the Wehrmacht achieved tactical surprise. Soviet troops were caught in their camps and barracks and the Germans quickly overran incomplete or unmanned field fortifications. This picture was taken during Unternehmen Barbarossa, summer 1941. From right to left: Generaloberst Heinz Guderian […]

The guns of the Black Sea Fleet played a vitally important role in beating back this first German assault on Sevastopol. The battleship Paris Commune, later renamed Sevastopol, is seen in action firing her main armament, 12-inch guns. In early August Hitler flew to Army Group Center to confer with Bock, Guderian, and Hoth. He […]

A Honvéd column retreats through eastern Transylvania (the so-called Szeklerland), in the vicinity of Sepsiszentgyörgy (in Rumanian Sfântu-Gheorghe) – as indicated by the road sign – in the autumn of 1944. Note the Steyr RSO (Raupenschlepper Ost) towing a 40 mm Bofors flak cannon, at left, and the opportunist bicyclist who grabbed the opportunity for […]