Victory
Published on 1. October 2020
330 pages
978-0-7953-3163-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Person
Sir Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "
for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." Over a 64-year span, Churchill published over 40 books, many multi-volume definitive accounts of historical events to which he was a witness and participant. All are beautifully written and as accessible and relevant today as when first published. During his fifty-year political career, Churchill served twice as Prime Minister in addition to other prominent positions-including President of the Board of Trade, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Home Secretary. In the 1930s, Churchill was one of the first to recognize the danger of the rising Nazi power in Germany and to campaign for rearmament in Britain. His leadership and inspired broadcasts and speeches during World War II helped strengthen British resistance to Adolf Hitler-and played an important part in the Allies' eventual triumph. One of the most inspiring wartime leaders of modern history, Churchill was also an orator, a historian, a journalist, and an artist. All of these aspects of Churchill are fully represented in this collection of his works.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Contents
- REVIEW OF THE WAR, a Speech to the House of Commons, January 18, 1945
- REBUILDING THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, a Speech to the House of Commons, January 25, 1945
- THE CRIMEA DECLARATION, a Statement issued by the Prime Minister, President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin at the conclusion of the Conference at Yalta, February 12, 1945
- TRIBUTE TO RUSSIA, a Speech at an airfield in the Crimea, February 14, 1945
- FUTURE OF GREECE, a Speech to a crowd in Constitution Square, Athens, February 14, 1945
- RESULTS OF THE THREE POWER CONFERENCE, a Speech to the House of Commons, February 27, 1945
- SELECT COMMITTEES, a Speech to the House of Commons, March 7, 1945
- CIVIL DEFENCE GRATUITIES, a Statement to the House of Commons, March 8, 1945
- THE CONSERVATIVE POLICY, a Speech to the Conservative Party Conference at the Central Hall, Westminster, on March 15, 1945
- SAN FRANCISCO DELEGATION, a Statement to the House of Commons, March 22, 1945
- A LOST AIRCRAFT, a Statement to the House of Commons, March 28, 1945
- THE DEATH OF EARL LLOYD GEORGE, a Speech to the House of Commons, March 28, 1945
- MESSAGES, January, February, March, 1945
- ANSWERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, January, February, March, 1945
- DEATH OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, a Speech to the House of Commons, April 17, 1945
- AN UNSPONSORED M.P., a Speech to the House of Commons, April 17, 1945
- FAR EAST TROOPS' WELFARE, a Speech to the House of Commons, April 18, 1945
- THE ENDURANCE OF BRISTOL, a Speech on receiving the Freedom of the City, April 21, 1945
- NO TIME TO RELAX, a Speech at Bristol University, April 21, 1945
- WAITING FOR VICTORY, a Statement to the House of Commons, May 1, 1945
- GERMANS SURRENDER IN ITALY AND AUSTRIA, a Statement to the House of Commons, May 2, 1945
- UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, a World Broadcast, May 8, 1945
- "THIS IS YOUR VICTORY," two Speeches to the crowds in Whitehall, May 8 and 9, 1945
- MORE PETROL, a Statement to the House of Commons, May 10, 1945
- "FORWARD TILL THE WHOLE TASK IS DONE," a World Broadcast, May 13, 1945
- THE KING IN THE WAR, a Speech to the House of Commons, May 15, 1945
- CAMPAIGN STARS, a Speech to the House of Commons, May 18, 1945
- SYRIA AND LEBANON, a Statement to the House of Commons, June 5, 1945
- NEGOTIATIONS WITH VICHY, a Statement to the House of Commons, June 12, 1945
- GENERAL EISENHOWER, a Speech at the Mansion House, London, June 12, 1945
- ANSWERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, April, May, June, 1945
- MESSAGES, April, May, June, 1945
- THE U-BOAT WARFARE, Monthly Statements issued by the Prime Minister and the President, January to June, 1945
- THE GENERAL ELECTION
- THE COALITION BREAKS UP, Letter to Mr. Attlee, May, 1945
- MESSAGE TO THE ELECTORS
- "VOTE NATIONAL, NOT PARTY," The first Election Broadcast, June 4, 1945
- A HEALTHIER NATION, The second Election Broadcast, June 13, 1945
- A THREAT TO FREEDOM, The third Election Broadcast, June 21, 1945
- ELECTION ADDRESS, To the electors of Woodford, June, 1945
- THE VOTER'S CHOICE, The fourth Election Broadcast, June 30, 1945
- LETTER TO MR. ATTLEE, June, 1945
- THE NATION'S VERDICT, a Statement issued after the declaration of the result of the General Election, July 26, 1945
- THE WAR
- "DEAR DESERT RATS," A Speech in Berlin, July 21, 1945
- TERMS FOR JAPAN, An Ultimatum, July 26, 1945
- THE ATOMIC BOMB, a Statement issued on August 6, 1945
- THE TRUE GLORY, a Speech to the House of Commons on the surrender of Japan, August 15, 1945
- THE SUPREME TRIUMPH, A final review of the war in a Speech to the House of Commons, August 16, 1945
