Italy
In front of the Arch of Constantine beside the Colosseum and from a 19th century photograph by Giacomo Brogi
The Forum Romanum looking towards the Capitoline
The Monument to Vittorio Emmanuele II - the so-called "Wedding Cake"
Hadrian's Monument, now Castel Sant'Angelo
Michelangelo Buonarroti's 1548 design for the Capitoline Hill
The Spanish Steps at the turn of the century and today
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1925 black and white halftone print of the Temple of Poseidon at Paestum
Temple at Segesta in 1890 and today
1896 photogravure of the Tetrarchy statue at the Basilica of St. Mark's in Venice
San Marco's Square in 1860 and now
Matera
Greece
Behind me (and the Wehrmacht exactly 60 years before) is the Acropolis
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In front of the Parthenon and how it appears in reconstructed form in Nashville
Germans raising the German war ensign above the Acropolis on April 27, 1941
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Sounion, where Aegeus, king of Athens, leapt to his death off the cliff, thus giving his name to the Aegean Sea.
The Funeral Mound at Marathon
The stele of honour at Marathon
The Lion Gate at Mycenae, replacing the one from which Agamemnon would have departed for the Trojan war, and through which he returned, only to be murdered by his wife Clytaemnestra. From 1897 to now
Schliemann's so-called Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae in 1880 and now 
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The view of the temple of Apollo in Corinth by Williams in 1816 and now 
The
Bema (Judgement seat) at Corinth, where Paul was claimed to have been
brought before Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, (Acts xviii.14),
although the idea of an obscure wandering rabbi called Paul being given
an hearing from the Roman consul of all Greece, a Roman senator and
brother of Seneca is frankly ludicrous.
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Construction of the Corinth canal connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth in 1886.
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| Palamidi Castle overlooking Nafplion from a 1920s photogravure |
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi in 1926 and today, overlooking the theatre
The ruins at Nemea, from an 1890 wood engraving 
The temple of Hera at Olympia where Charmides saw the statue of Hermes, perhaps the most beautiful statue in the world.
France
Mont St. Michel
West portal of Chartres Cathedral
Cour de Marbre at Versailles in 1895 and now
West portal of Chartres Cathedral
Cour de Marbre at Versailles in 1895 and now
Hitler’s
1940 battlefield excursion was part of a grand tour of defeated France,
of which an early morning visit (in the company of Albert Speer and the
official Nazi sculptor Arno Breker) to the architectural monuments of
Paris was the highlight. Court photographer Heinrich Hoffmann turned
Hitler’s excursion into a profitable propaganda set piece. The cover of
the first edition (600,000) of his Mit Hitler im Westen shows
Hitler posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, while other more deceptive
pictures suggest that the warlord was leading from the Front during the
French campaign.
Hitler visiting Vimy June 1940, and me in 1997 and 2007.
Hitler at Reims Cathedral, 1940
Hitler at Ypres, still being reconstructed from the First World War
Hitler at Reims Cathedral, 1940
Hitler's painting of the church at Messines during the Great War and its present incarnation
Portugal
The so-called Temple of Diana, Evora
The
site where Portuguese President Sidonio Pais read a telegram from King George V celebrating Portuguese participation in the Allied
victory in the Great War from the Palace of Belém in Lisbon (just before
he was assassinated), in 1918 and today.
Spain
San Pablo church in Valladolid from an 1858 engraving
Gibraltar
The Rock, British forever under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. A Royal Air Force Lockheed Hudson III of No. 233 Squadron RAF leaves its dispersal at Gibraltar for a reconnaissance sortie August 3, 1942.
Belgium
Hitler at Langemark Cemetery during the invasion of Belgium, 1940.
Canadians marching past what's left of the Cloth Hall in Ypres, 1918 and Hitler returning through Ypres, 1940
Constructing the Menin Gate
The Lille Gate in Ypres during the Great War and today
The Canadian 'Brooding Soldier' Memorial to those who were affected by this first use of chlorine gas during the Great War located at Vancouver Corner, about a mile south-east of Langemarck on the road towards Zonnebeke in Sint-Juliaan, West-Vlaanderen. Around 2000 Canadians died in this attack. The imposing statue of the Brooding Soldier stands at a cross-roads near the village of St Juliaan. The design of this memorial was deemed the runner-up after the Vimy Ridge monument design was determined the main Canadian memorial.
Just outside the entrance to Hill 60 is this monument to the Australian 1st Tunnelling Company who took over maintenance of the British mines underneath whilst the Germans were holding it in November 1916. You can clearly see the bullet holes on the memorial plate from the Germans' return engagement in the Second World War, apparently out of a fit of pique.
Poperinghe in 1917, with Scottish troops in the Grande Place and the re-named Grote Markt today with the Stadhuis in the background.
Talbot House in Poperinge, one of the most evocative sites from the Great War era. It was here that two army chaplains, Philip ‘Tubby’ Clayton and Neville Talbot, opened a club for soldiers. Named in honour of Gilbert Talbot, who was killed at Hooge in 1915, it became known as Toc H after the army signal code used in the war. More than half a million soldiers visited the club, which was housed in the mansion of a local hop trader, who had fled the country.
United Kingdom
Stonehenge
Abbey Road, 1969 and today
The Houses of Parliament
Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment in 1926
St Clement Danes burning during the Blitz on 10 May 1941 and me beside the Bomber Harris statue in front
Chilham
Worcester cathedral from the former £20 pound note
Carrick-a-Rede bridge on the Antrim Coast from an 1898 print
Belfast City Hall, turn of the century and today
Belfast City Hall, turn of the century and today
Republic of Ireland
The Custom House in Dublin from an engraving ca. 1840
Cliffs of Moher, turn of the century
Dominion of Canada
Memorial on the holy site of Wolfe's death on the Plains of Abraham in 1890 and today.
United States of America
Mount Rushmore, before the monument and today
China
Victory celebration of the Allies November 28, 1900 over the Chinese after the miraculous "55 Days in Peking" and at the same spot just over a century later during SARS (hence the near-empty site)
During the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident in Lugouqiao outside Peking
The Great Wall from an 1887 set of engravings based on photographs taken by a Soldier of Sir Frederick Bruce's Bodyguard
Chiang Kai-shek above the Tian'anmen Rostrum, replaced now for the time being, by Mao
Tibet
The British army entering Lhasa during the 1904 Younghusband Mission with me holding Chinese occupation money, showing how the city has suffered since.
Vietnam
The Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum at completion in 1975
Wreckage of John McCain's plane, Hanoi, October 1967 and today
Beside the tank that liberated Saigon from American control
Australia
Brisbane from Story Bridge in 1950 and today
In front of Brisbane's City Hall
In front of Brisbane's City Hall
