So, there I am, reading chapter 2 of Life Conquers Death (which is proving a good read) and the author refers (page 37) to the picture on the front cover, used with permission, as being Rembrandt's Holy Family With Angels. No!  My paperback copy has a rather striking photograph of a tree with the sun just skimming the uppermost branches (I don't seem to be able to track down a hardback version, if there is one, to see if this is different).

Fortunately the author of the book (John Arnold) includes a detailed description of the painting, so the book still works.  What was intriguing was to compare the image as I imagined it from his description with the relaity when I found it online.

Just in case anyone else is likely to be in the same predicament, here is a version as a soviet postage stamp (I liked the irony of this) from 1976...