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Belongs to SeriesWar Speeches (Volume 6)
The Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister's historic speeches from the final year of WWII are collected in this essential volume. During the final eight months of World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave some of the most brilliant and consequential speeches of his career. Here are Churchill's war status reports delivered to the House of Commons, his rousing statements to the British people, and his global broadcasts, including his announcement of Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8th, 1945. These speeches detail Churchill's public reactions to the forming of the United Nations, the death of Roosevelt, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, and, lastly, the election that defeats him. Perhaps most notable is the "Gestapo" speech of 1945, in which Churchill made a controversial comparison between a Socialist government and the Gestapo--an extremely charged word at that time--that many believe cost him his job as Prime Minister. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5341History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Europe British IslesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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