Disconcerting photos of Brits going about their daily lives and children playing—in gas masks. Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in ...

To assemble a collection of some of the most unforgettable images of World War II, ... A German nurse fits a young girl with a government-issued gas mask, September 1937.

More than 150 images showing how the Second World War was photographed have been released for VE Day. In honour of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender - ending the Second World War in ...

To the editor: I grew up in Great Britain during World War II. Now I write while sequestered at home in California because of COVID-19. (“In Orange County, Heart of the Mask Resistance, a Doctor ...

Civilians wear gas masks and chemical suits during a ... Photo: Corbis via Getty Images. ... 1931-1945,” a vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II.