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Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

Photographer David Sims captured a series of black and white images of this year's Green Scythe Fair in Langport, Somerset. The Green Scythe Fair is...

FRANCE: French troops manhandle a captured Pak 40 anti-tank gun in liberated Toulon; this ???fortress??? city yielded 17,000 German prisoners. A dead...

FRANCE: The cruiser USS Philadelphia pounding German coastal batteries from the Gulf of St Tropez on 15 August 1944. INCREDIBLE images capture the ??...

FRANCE: President Roosevelt did not trust General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French, who was determined to manoeuvre himself into such a po...

FRANCE: Throughout France retribution against those who had collaborated with the occupiers was swift and often brutal. This French woman is escorted...

FRANCE: The retreating Army Group G, reliant on horse-drawn transport, was constantly vulnerable to Allied air attack. Nazi troops suffered 28,000 kil...

FRANCE: A French tank destroyer engages German troops on the streets of Paris. The German commandant initially refused to surrender, resulting in need...

FRANCE: A devastated column of German horse-drawn wagons and lorries outside Mont??limar. retreating German forces held the town until 28 August, when...

FRANCE: Allied armour and Free French forces pushing towards Paris, making the Riviera invasion "completely irrelevant to the liberation", according t...

FRANCE: Although resistance on the Riviera was light, there were still 480 casualties within the first few hours of the invasion. INCREDIBLE images ca...

FRANCE: Although dubbed the ???Champagne Campaign???, the Allies??? liberation of southern France was still a bloody affair. Tens of thousands were in...

FRANCE: Forlorn German troops captured by the French 1st Army in Alsace. In total General Blaskowitz lost perhaps half of his 250,000 men in southern...

FRANCE: The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill saw Operation Anvil/Dragoon as a waste of vital military resources. He threatened to resign over...

FRANCE: Eisenhower (standing, centre) and other Allied commanders visiting the Normandy beachhead. Operation Dragoon was originally supposed to coinci...

FRANCE: On the first day of Dragoon some 94,000 men and 11,000 vehicles poured ashore. INCREDIBLE images capture the ???second D-day???, the lesser kn...

FRANCE: The gathering of the invasion fleet in the Mediterranean and the preliminary bombing of Marseilles and Toulon soon alerted Nazi Generals Blask...

FRANCE: American assault boats on the Riviera beaches. There were not enough landing craft to conduct Dragoon in parallel with D-Day, thereby ruining...

FRANCE: Churchill with General Bradley in Normandy. On 7 August 1944 Winston spent the entire day lobbying Eisenhower to shift Dragoon to Brittany. Ik...

FRANCE: Montgomery and Eisenhower, the architects of Overlord, pose for the cameras. For seven months in 1944 Ike endured unrelenting pressure from Mo...

UK: The Hood on the Firth of Forth during the 1920s. Behind the Hood stands the Forth Bridge. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of o...

UK: Captain Glennie and the Hood crew are mustered on the forecastle in what is believed to be the last full-crew photograph taken of the Hood. While...

UK: This image shows the Hood framed in lights while at Gibraltar on 6 November 1935. She was framed in light to celebrate the wedding of Prince Henry...

UK: The Hood's crew manone of its formidable guns. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of one of the Royal Navy???s most devastating...

UK: The Hood viewed between two of the 16-inch guns of HMS Rodney while the two ships were at Scapa Flow in the autumn of 1940. HMS Renown and the Rep...

UK: The Hood engaged in a firing exercise, c. 1937. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of one of the Royal Navy???s most devastating...

UK: Taken from the Ark Royal, this image shows the Hood disappearing behind columns of water as bombs detonate as the ship becomes a target of Italian...

UK: The Hood in the Panama Canal as it toured the world, pride of the Royal Navy. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of one of the Ro...

UK: One of the most famous photographs of the Bismarck taken as she opened fire on the Hood. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of on...

UK: Book cover. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of one of the Royal Navy???s most devastating disasters are revealed in a new book...

UK: The Hood, c. 1923. NIGHTMARISH eye-witness accounts from the survivors of one of the Royal Navy???s most devastating disasters are revealed in a n...

UK: : Taken while the Hood was in Vancouver, this image shows one of the Hood???s sailors with Joey the wallaby on deck. He was a mascot the crew brou...

UK: That fateful day 24 May 1941: HMS Prince of Wales (the smoke column of the left) under fire from the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen with the smoke o...

UK: Taken while the Hood was at Gibraltar, her forward guns and the tampions are adorned with the ship???s badge in the muzzle of the guns. NIGHTMARIS...

UK: A party of men cleaning one of the Hood???s 15-inch guns. This photo was taken on 11 November 1933 while the Hood was en route to Portsmouth. NIGH...

Troops and landing craft occupy a Normandy beach shortly after the D-Day landing. THE HEROES of D-Day have been brought back to life in a touching tri...

THE HEROES of D-Day have been brought back to life in a touching tribute after images of their heroics were expertly colourised. The incredible images...

THE HEROES of D-Day have been brought back to life in a touching tribute after images of their heroics were expertly colourised. The incredible images...

THE HEROES of D-Day have been brought back to life in a touching tribute after images of their heroics were expertly colourised. The incredible images...

THE HEROES of D-Day have been brought back to life in a touching tribute after images of their heroics were expertly colourised. The incredible images...

German soldiers are captured following the assault on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc by U.S. Army Rangers during the D-Day invasion June 8, 1944 in Cricq...