I've started looking for the source images/artwork for the game boxes. Most of which are based on actual war art. Does anyone know where to find the images or know the picture names? I still have a big list:
1940: The Fall of France (old and new versions)
Africa Orientale Italiana
An Army at Dawn
Broken Axis
Conquest of Ethiopia
Elsenborn Ridge (old and new versions)
Gates of Leningrad
Invasion 1944
The Kokoda Campaign
Korean War: Pusan Perimeter
Korean War: Counter Attack
Kursk: Burning Tigers
Kursk: South Flank (old version)
Liberation 1944
Parachutes over Crete
Road to Dunkirk
Afrika 1944
La Campagne de Tunisie
1967: Sword of Israel
IDF: Israel Defense Forces
August 1914
Edelweiss Division
Fall of Empires
Lawrence of Arabia
Links to images are good too.
Kursk: Burning Tigers features "Valeria Gnarovskaya's feat" painted by Marat Samsonov, which hangs in the Military Medical Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
On 23 September 1943, only 20 years old and a medic in a Soviet rifle company, her unit came under attack from two Tiger tanks. “Valeria ran forward [with a bundle of grenades] and threw herself right under the tracks of the leading Tiger. There was a big explosion and the tank ground to a halt. The second tank tried to turn back but it was too late. Valeria’s comrades dashed up and put it out of action. Thanks to her self-sacrifice, the breach was quickly patched up, the assault beaten off and the regiment put on the offensive.”
On 3 June 1944 Gnarovskoy was posthumously awarded the title ‘Hero of the Soviet Union.’
Wow! Of all the pics this one is the most improbable. When I first saw it I thought, " Wait, do my eyes deceive me? Is that a woman holding a machine pistol?" Of course David Hackett Fischer would disapprove due to its era misalignment (not directly in the battle) but close enough.
No not a PPSh. It is a grenade bundle. I've come across a couple of pictures of women like here, I think one even survived.
I am still looking for:
Conquest of Ethiopia
Africa Orientale Italiana (I have found a rather unsuitable graphic)
Sword of Israel
IDF (think it is a photo somewhere)
Edelweiss Division
Fall of Empires
Lawrence of Arabia
I stand corrected, Peter and PFC Slayden!
Now the other stories behind the box art?
I don't know of any stories any paintings or photographs used for the games as dramatic as the one depicting Valeria Gnarovskaya. Most images for current eastern front games can be found at
All World Wars.
A couple odd things I found along the way. Invasion 1944 image is from a U.S. Propaganda poster called "
In The Face Of Obstacles - Courage".
The photo of Soviet armor for the first cover of Road to Berlin was actually taken in Prague.
The photo used to make the art of La Campagne de Tunisie was taken in Sicily and is of a Royal Artillery unit.
My Summary of the cover art that I have found.
Thanks for sharing your work, Peter!