100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events That Changed the World
Publisher - National Geographic Society
Binding - Hardback
Pages - 320
Illustrated
Age - Adult
Size - 23cm x 28cm

Product weight 1700g


 
 

Much more than a book of pictures, 100 Days in Photographs is an intriguing visual journey through modern history - an odyssey that's personal and universal, immediate and timeless.

To create it, Getty Images and National Geographic identified 100 days that represent defining moments of the past 150 years...and crystallized them with photographs - rarely seen, or imperative to be seen again - that leap from the page to evoke joy and anger, hope and confusion, triumph and despair.

Enhancing the visuals are journal entries from people who lived these events, and notes made on-site by the photographers themselves.

Masterful storyteller and historian Nick Yapp searches beyond the textbook facts of history to uncover unique and little-known aspects of each happening. His entertaining narrative does more than teach - it engages and surprises us at every turn, revealing new motivations and memories behind events we thought we knew.

War, crime, technology, exploration, achievement, fads and fashion all figure into the life and legacy of these 100 days.

Contents

1851 - 1900

The Great Exhibition, Balaclava, Exodus from Lucknow, Launch of Brunel's Leviathon, Blondin crosses Niagra, Gettysburg, Death of Lincoln, Completion of Transcontinental Railway, Opening of the Suez Canal, Rise of the Paris Commune, Eiffel Tower, Wounded Knee, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, Battle of Spion Kop

1901 - 1930

First Flight, Battle fo Tsushima, Potemkin Mutiny, Ford's Model T, First to the North Pole, Louis Bleriot, Discovery of Machu Picchu, First to South Pole, Titanic, Death of Emily Davison, Assassination Franz Ferdinand, Armenian Genocide, Attack on Winter Palace, First Tank Battle, Spartacist Uprising, Treaty of Versailles, Mussolini's March on Rome, Tutankhamun's Tomb discovery, Lindbergh flies the Atlantic, Wall Street Crash, Byrd's South Pole flight

1931-1950

Gandhi Salt March, Mao's Long March, Jessie Owens wins 100 metres, Abdication Edward VIII, Bombing of Guernica, Blitzkrieg Western Front, London Blitz, Pearl Harbor, Surrender at Stalingrad, D-Day, Liberation of Buchenwald, Hiroshima, Partition of India, State of Israel, Berlin Blockade, Hubble first uses Hale telescope, Battle of Inchon

1951 - 1970

Salk Polio Vaccine tests, Discovery of Double Helix, Conquest of Everest, Edward Murrow attacks Senator Joseph McCarthy, Elvis on Sullivan Show, Hungarian Revolution begins, Elizabeth Eckford at Little Rock, Launch of Sputnik 1, Victory for Cuban revolutionaries, Discovery of Zinjanthropus, Trieste explores Mariana Trench, First Presidential debate on TV, Cuban Missile Crisis averted, March on Washington DC, Assassination of JFK, Chinese Cultural Revolution, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released, Start of Six Day War, Nigerian troops move into Biafra, Paris on Strike, Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Moon Landing, Woodstock opens

1971 - 2005

Nixon visits China, Black September and Munich Massacre, Nixon resigns, Fall of Saigon, Last case of smallpox, Fall of Pol Pot, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Recognition of Solidarity, Hole in the Ozone Layer, Live Aid Concerts, Challenger disaster, Chernobyl disaster, World Health Assembly approves AIDS strategy, Tiananmen Square protest, Fall of Berlin Wall, Release of Nelson Mandela, First Website goes online, Dolly, cloned sheep, Death of Princess Diana, President Clinton Impeached, Second Intifada Starts, 9/11, Invasion of Iraq, Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina