Romanian soldiers goofing off on an anti-tank gun in the mid-1990s.

A couple in Sfântu Gheorghe in April 1940.

A Romanian noncommissioned officer in January 1942.

Pages on the Romanian Army from 1866 to 1906 from a German book about military uniforms.

A cavalry patrol watching farm buildings being burnt by a mob during the peasant uprising in Romania in 1907 near Bujeu (Buzău?) - by a British artist based on a sketch by a British journalist.

Some members of a funeral procession being organized outside a church in Bârlad in 1944.

A Romanian family outside their home in June 1942.

A veteran title from 1947, still carrying the monogram of King Mihai I, declaring its holder was a "fighter in Romania's wars" in 1913 (Second Balkan War) & 1916-1919 (First World War & Romanian-Hungarian War).

The Romanian poster for a 1942 German film, GPU, anti-Bolshevik propaganda focused on Soviet state terror.

A group of officers of the Romanian Fourth Army marching through the Arch of Triumph in Bucharest, past a poster of Hitler, during the victory parade celebrating the fall of Odessa in early November 1941.

An illustration of Romanian general staff officers including (on the left) General Ioan Emanoil Florescu, at that time the Minister of War, in the 1870s.

"Battlefield in Romania." A German snapshot of Romanian dead in WW1.

A group outside the Agricultural Bank in Brăila in 1942.

King Mihai I inspecting the tanks of the German 13th Panzer Division, which was based in Romania from fall 1940 to spring 1941.

A parade in Bucharest in 1945 with massive posters of Prime Minister Attlee, King Mihai I, Stalin, and President Truman.

The first tram line in Constanța opened in June 1944 (delayed a month due American bombing) but closed in October 1944. The tram cars & other materials had been taken from Romanian-occupied Odessa. The Soviets demanded the restitution, after restoration, of the looted equipment.

The cover of the 1943 Romanian Calendar of Bessarabia.

German troops captured in Bucharest after 23 August 1944 being marched past the royal palace with the Athénée Palace in the background. Note: the Romanian guards are wearing German helmets.

Math professor Benone Constantinescu with a class of students at the C. Negruzzi Boarding High School in Iaşi in 1942.

A train full of German soldiers makes a stop in Romania during WW2.

A WW2 propaganda image that shows German soldiers joined by their allies on the Eastern Front - including two Romanians (bottom right wearing a helmet & a beret) - holding up a V for victory symbol.

"Remembrance from the time of the Braşov 1989 military training."

German armor rumbling through Bucharest, as a Romanian aircraft circles overhead, toward the end of Legionary Rebellion in January 1941. The German show of force was meant to encourage the fascist mob to stop resisting the Romanian Army.

A column of Hungarian bicycle troops advancing into northern Transylvania in September 1940.

General Hasso von Manteuffel of the Großdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division confers with another officer in a trench during the second Battle of Târgu Frumos in eastern Romania in May 1944.

A March 1943 issue of The Soldier, a broadsheet for Romanian troops during WW2, with stories on the 25th anniversary of the union of Bessarabia with Romania, "heroic Bessarabia," not worrying, & Minister of National Defense General Pantazi visiting troops in the Caucasus.

Cuza Palace in Ruginoasa in ruins after fighting along the Iaşi front in spring & summer 1944.

A Romanian pilot poses in his flight gear in 1942-1943.

"Sketch with the transfer and evacuation itineraries of Jews from southern Bessarabia." A route from the Tarutino Ghetto to Purcari. Jews who hadn't fled east & had survived massacres by the Romanians in the summer were held in ghettos til deportation to Transnistria in the fall.

Irina Burnaia, a trained pilot who had flown medical evacuation missions with the "White Squadron" on the front but then organized the Bug Squadron in Transnistria for postal, transport, & liaison roles, with fighter ace Captain Alexandru Şerbănescu & two German officers in WW2.

King Ferdinand I of Romania speaking in Huşi in early 1917 during an oathtaking ceremony for new recruits.

Romanian troops in Arad in 1919.

A 1906 coin celebrating 40th anniversary of the establishment of the 2nd "Queen Elisabeta" Rifle [Vânători] Battalion.

I'm so excited to see this book is coming out. I read drafts of the chapter on Romania. It's a great piece of scholarship.

Romanian Messerschmitts on a snowy airfield on the Eastern Front during WW2.

The cover of the program for horse races in Bucharest in October 1943.

A street scene from Lugoj in May 1942.

The funeral of Aviation Lt. Col. Alexandru Popisteanu, commander of the Romanian 7th Fighter Group, who was killed in an air battle near Odessa in fall 1941.

General Gheorghe Jienescu, State Undersecretary for Air from 1941 to 1944, being decorated by King Mihai I of Romania.

Romanian soldiers of the 28th Dorobanţi [Footsoldier] Regiment based in Ismail pose for a group photograph in March 1939 after the oathtaking ceremony for new recruits. This unit was among those disbanded after the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia & N Bukovina in June/July 1940.

Romanian officers in full dress uniform during the interwar period.

A Heinkel He 114 in Romanian colors at Mamaia in September 1942.

The aftermath of a Soviet air raid on Constanța in June 1941.

Romanian mountain troops with ski gear in the mid-1990s.

Romanian soldiers goofing off while working on an irrigation system near Giubega in summer 1983. The Romanian Army often assigned many of its conscripts to labor on agricultural projects that served the priorities of the communist regime.

The first issue of Radio Romania for 1941.

A couple in conversation on Take Ionescu Boulevard in Bucharest in 1941.

Central Powers prisoners of war in a camp in Romania during WW1.

Bulgarian soldiers join a wedding procession in Cataloi in the Dobruja region in August 1918 during the waning days of the occupation of half of Romania by the Central Powers.

Romanian dead after the Soviet breakout from the Don River bridgeheads to encircle German forces in Stalingrad in November 1942.