The Best of After the Battle: Then and Now

It was nearly half a century ago that After the Battle first began visiting the battlefields of the Second World War, matching up photographs of the period with their present-day comparisons. Our ‘then and now’ theme caught on with like-minded readers around the world, all interested to know what the places looked like today — as we say ‘keeping history alive’.

Searching for the locations where the wartime captions were imprecise, took much time, and there were occasions when a whole day mig...