Wednesday 12 September 2012

Winston Churchill: Finest Hour

Inspirational words of the greatest leader of the free world in WW2.
 
The This was their finest hour speech was delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940. It was given just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the head of an all-party Coalition government.
It was the third of three speeches which he gave during (roughly) the period of the Battle of Britain.
  1. the "Blood, toil, tears & sweat " speech of 13 May, given 3 days after the start of the German offensive in the West; his first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister, reporting the formation of an all-party coalition government implacably resolved to fight on to ultimate victory
  2. the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of 4 June, reporting the success of the Germans in overrunning Holland, Belgium and France north of the Somme, and the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk, and preparing the British to fight on alone, if necessary.
  3. This speech, made to the House of Commons after France had sought an armistice on the evening of 16 June

Blood, toil, tears and sweat















We shall fight on the beaches
















Finest hour speech

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