The Unrelenting Struggle

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speeches
BY THE RIGHT HON.
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winston s. churchill
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THIS VOLUME CONTAINS THE CHIEF SPEECHES OF THE Prime Minister from November, 1940, to the end of 1941, thus containing the series begun in INTO BATTLE. It consists of seventy-two public speeches, messages, statements to Parliament, and broadcasts to our own and other peoples. It is, in fact, the historical record of fourteen momentous months when Britain was indeed tasting something of the " blood and toil, sweat and tears " that Mr Churchill had promised when he assumed the fateful task of Prime Minister.
There is a strength and quality about this great stateman's speeches that make them inspiring reading long^after the events that occasioned them ; not only does Mr Chiirchill speak and write vigorous prose, but there is a deeper inspiration in what he says that touches a part of that inner self in all of us—call it loyalty, patriotism or what you will—that stirs us to higher thoughts and deeds. What he has... Tovább

Fülszöveg

4 s
speeches
BY THE RIGHT HON.
'' if. ,
winston s. churchill
i'f
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS THE CHIEF SPEECHES OF THE Prime Minister from November, 1940, to the end of 1941, thus containing the series begun in INTO BATTLE. It consists of seventy-two public speeches, messages, statements to Parliament, and broadcasts to our own and other peoples. It is, in fact, the historical record of fourteen momentous months when Britain was indeed tasting something of the " blood and toil, sweat and tears " that Mr Churchill had promised when he assumed the fateful task of Prime Minister.
There is a strength and quality about this great stateman's speeches that make them inspiring reading long^after the events that occasioned them ; not only does Mr Chiirchill speak and write vigorous prose, but there is a deeper inspiration in what he says that touches a part of that inner self in all of us—call it loyalty, patriotism or what you will—that stirs us to higher thoughts and deeds. What he has said and recorded in these two books becomes, therefore, part of our national heritage of culture.
The events dealt with in these speeches are stirring enough ; the attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto, the first battle in the Western Desert, the victory of Sidi Barrani, the winter-long air raids on J^ondon, Coventry and other cities, the fighting in Crete, the meeting with Mr Roosevelt and the signing of the Atlantic Charter, the treacherous attack by Japan, and finally the Prime Minister's historic visit to the United States and Canada. This long series of portentous events is all recorded here in Mr. Churchill's own forceful words that even now, when the breathless tide of war has borne us onwards, place them in perspective and give them their due significance.
Once again the House of Cassell considers itself honoured by being charged with the publication of the Prime Minister's utterances.
COlVtPILED BY CHARLES BADE
THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE
INTO BATTLE
by
THE RIGHT HON.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
This inspiring book contains every major speech made by Mr Churchill between May 1938, and November 1940, and since the publication of his previous collection of speeches, " Arms and the Covenant." Ninth Edition. lOi. net
" Not the book of the week. Nor yet of the month or the year. Into Battle is a book for all time."—JAMES AGATE.
" These speeches, compositions of supreme art as they may be, are, in a much more pressing aspect, events. They are not comments on history, but history itself."
—Observer.
" They are indeed more than Mr Churchill's words ; they are the voice of Britain speaking from his heart and through his lips."—Yorkshire Post.
" How magnificently they read. The thrill with which we listened to the masterful voice comes again from the printed page." HORACE THOROGOOD {Evening Standard).
" The Prime Minister is at his best in these pages. They illustrate all his special gifts : his range of ideas, his power of phrase, his incisive wit, his sparkling ridicule, his debating skill."—Manchester Guardian.
" Many histories of this time will come to be written, but none will be better than this."—ISAAC FOOT {Spectator).
Full particulars of THE UNRELENTING STRUGGLE appears on the bade of this wrapper.

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