These poignant, often heart-wrenching photographs, taken by the world's best photojournalists, tell dramatic & memorable stories & form a visual chronicle of our & tragedies of our age. Here are the moments during which history turned: five Marines raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, Babe Ruth offering a final salute at Yankee Stadium, the fallen students at Kent State, the demonstration at China's Tiananmen Square, a lone woman defying security officers during the evacuation of the West Bank. Filled with emotion & passion, each photograph trasports us to a single moment. This breathtaking collection demonstrates the power of photography to compel, provoke, inspire, & above all, preserve.