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Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches

Vol 1: Never Give In!

Winston Churchill author

Format:CD-Audio

Publisher:BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House

Published:4th Apr '05

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Sir Winston Churchill's greatest speeches digitally remastered, selected and introduced by his grandson Winston S. Churchill.

Using digitally remastered archive recordings, they include: `Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ / `The Few’ / `This was their finest hour’ / `We can take it!’ / `An Iron Curtain has descended’ / `Never give in!’ / `A total and unmitigated defeat’/ `Give us the tools’.

Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War Two. He was one of the twentieth century’s greatest orators, and the speeches that he painstakingly composed, rehearsed and delivered inspired courage in an entire nation. Churchill’s output was prolific – his complete speeches alone contain over 5 million words. On this special recording, the best and most important of those have been brought together in this historic volume. Using digitally remastered archive recordings, they include: ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ / ‘The Few’ / ‘This was their finest hour’ / ‘We can take it!’ / ‘An Iron Curtain has descended’ / ‘Never give in!’ / ‘A total and unmitigated defeat’/ ‘Give us the tools’. Winston Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen and was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his age. These speeches help reveal the man behind the defiant orator and demonstrate why, in a national poll, Sir Winston Churchill was voted ‘Greatest Briton of All Time’. ' The most persuasive and patriotic exhortations to arms since the Agincourt address from Henry V.' - Guardian.

2 CDs. 2 hrs 30 mins.

On a new CD of Churchill's greatest speeches, that voice, with the crackles taken out, produces in the listener some of the same feelings that must have churned within those civilians at home, those servicemen and women on leave, and the young nearing military age and their sweethearts. * Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780563526728

Dimensions: 140mm x 125mm x 10mm

Weight: 110g

Unabridged edition