[General Charles de Gaulle leading the parade down the Avenue des Champs-Elysées to celebrate the liberation of the city, Paris]

75 year old Wataneya has lived in City of the Dead her whole life. In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.

[Musicians playing live music at the Ana Bar, Budapest, Hungary]

[People with ruins of buildings destroyed the air battle between Japanese and Chinese fighter planes, Hankou, China]

[Soldiers in Republican bunkers around the Clinical Hospital, one of the principal bastions of the Nationalist rebels in the University City, Madrid]

[General Giuseppe Molinero (right), the commanding officer of Palermo, surrendering the city to General Geoffrey Keyes of the U.S. Army, Palermo, Sicily]

[In the city of Recife, in northeastern Brazil, the infant mortality rate was so high that children's graves were dug in advance]

[Interior of Hiroshima City Hall auditorium with undamaged walls and framing but spalling of plaster and complete destruction of contents by fire]