80 Days That Changed the World

DESCRIPTION: TIME looks back at its 80 years of publishing, with a fascinating collection of changing events, breathtaking progress and memorable people, heroes and villains, dictators and martyrs, movie stars and athletes. Here are Mohandas Gandi and Pope John Paul II, Winston Churchill, and Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, and Babe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin and Henry Ford. And here are the great events that shaped our life today: Pearl Harbor and D-Day, the landing on the moon, the turnmoil of the 1960s, the dawn of the computer age. Lavishly illustrated, beautifully written, this book brings 80 years of history into compelling new life.