Wartime Studies Pillows

King George VI

"I'm hungry."

FDR

Sir Winston Churchill

Physicists disputing whether the clock moves backwards or forwards according to season change.

Kidnapping Lord Haw-Haw

"You can let that go till later, Harris."

Your Country Needs MOO!

Napoleon marches off alone

Barack Obama.

"Mrs. Barnes is to have a complete head-to-toe – she's to be the victim in a bandage-instruction class."

General's Coin Toss

Tea and Sugar Rationing

"Most of the time, war...it makes no sense. A lot of times, we'd hear artillery whistling over our heads. But really, you can't move. You just wait...and wait...until it hits...and hope it isn't hitting you."

"Mother, I'd like you to meet a member of the armed forces."

'These days,' she says, 'nothing gets a rise out of him.'

'And remind your father to take out the chicken from the freezer and don't forget to do your homework.'

'Stamp auction' WW2 Victory stamps on two fingers

The unknown soldier: war grave.

British patent (applied for) A Trained Dog of war Drawing the Enemy's Fire.

For the War Inventions Board. The Armoured Bayonet-curler for the Spoiling the Temper of the Enemy's Steel

"Well, thats buggered that idea"

Charles de Gaulle

"Well, then why don't the British just borrow Major Eliot from the Herald Tribune."

"... and so, gentlemen, I have to report that, despite the not inconsiderable complications and burdens presented by the war, the income of the North American Broadcasting Company showed a net increase of two per cent."

Wilfred Owen

Union Troops Foraging for Supplementary Rations in Louisiana

"We didn't have telly in wartime, we had to make our own violence."

Soldiers

"It's blank because we haven't found a new war yet."

"Why don't you join the Army."

Winston Churchill

"He may be an objector, but he certainly isn't very conscientious..."

Mine and Countermine

A clever ruse. How two German officers carried a gun past the British lines.