A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring to colourful life 200 B&W photographs of the defining events and personalities of more than a hundred years of world history. From 1850 to the beginning of the Space Age, it charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war, and the men and women who made history. A unique - and often beautiful - perspective on the past.