Bleak future: A German soldier tries to stay warm in the shelter of a demolished building while keeping a eye out for Soviet attacks in the Demyansk Pocket; South of Leningrad, USSR, February 1942.

Encircled but ready to fight

General Erwin Rommel (third from right) and his officers inspect a P-40 Warhawk fighter and ground attack aircraft shot down in the North-African desert; 1942.

Looking over downed aircraft

German soldiers take off a wounded comrade from a Pz.Kpfw. StuG III; Eastern Front.