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Bruno Barbey

A protestor prepares Molotov cocktails during the May 1968 civil unrest in Paris.

A U.S. patrol approaches a destroyed Iraqi tank and a charred corpse. Coalition forces liberated Kuwait on February 27, 1991. As many as 50,000 Iraqi soldiers died, and Kuwait’s landscape still bears scars from oil spills, fires, and tank tracks.

Retreating Iraqis set the Burgan oil fields ablaze. Soon an oily, toxic cloud more than 30 miles wide spread across the Persian Gulf. “We could just see a sliver of light along the horizon,” says gunner Paul Beaulieu. “Above us was this cloud of smoke from the oil fields, and below us the ground was soaked with oil.”

Paris, France: Psychiatrist Marc Windisch reads poems near the Eiffel Tower to comfort people.

People sunbathe in Yalta, Crimea, in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, U.S.S.R.