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‘The surge of unity and of duty’, 20 April 1939, Canada Club, London

‘Repudiation of the Balfour Declaration’, 23 May 1939, House of Commons

‘A hush over Europe’, 8 August 1939, Broadcast to US, London

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  The Glory Years 1939–45

War, 3 September 1939, House of Commons

Russia: ‘A riddle, wrapped in a mystery’, 1 October 1939, Broadcast, London

‘The Navy’s here!’, 23 February 1940, Guildhall, London

‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’, 13 May 1940, House of Commons

‘Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour!’, 19 May 1940, Broadcast, London

‘Wars are not won by evacuations’, 4 June 1940, House of Commons

‘The news from France is very bad’, 17 June 1940, Broadcast, London

‘
This
was their finest hour’, 18 June 1940, House of Commons

Destruction of the French Fleet, 4 July 1940, House of Commons

‘The War of the Unknown Warriors’, 14 July 1940, Broadcast, London

‘The Few’, 20 August 1940, House of Commons

Fifty American destroyers, 5 September 1940, House of Commons

‘These cruel, wanton . . . bombings’, 11 September 1940, Broadcast, London

‘We will all go down fighting to the end’, 17 September 1940, House of Commons

‘We can take it!’ 8 October 1940, House of Commons

‘Dieu protège la France’,
21 October 1940, Broadcast, London

‘Give us the tools’, 9 February 1941, Broadcast, London

‘This Battle of the Atlantic’, 18 March 1941, Pilgrims’ Society, London

Yugoslavia invaded, 9 April 1941, House of Commons

‘Westward look, the land is bright’, 27 April 1941, Broadcast, London

Vote of Confidence, 7 May 1941, House of Commons

‘The
Bismarck
is sunk!’, 27 May 1941, House of Commons

‘Our solid, stubborn strength’, 12 June 1941, London

‘The Old Lion’, 16 June 1941, Broadcast, London

Alliance with Russia, 22 June 1941, Broadcast, London

‘The grit and stamina of Londoners’, 14 July 1941, County Hall, London

The Atlantic Charter, 24 August 1941, Broadcast, London

‘We are still captain of our souls’, 9 September 1941, House of Commons

‘Never give in!’, 29 October 1941, Harrow School

The Lend-Lease Bill, 10 November 1941, Mansion House, London

War with Japan, 8 December 1941, House of Commons

Joint Session of Congress, 26 December 1941, Washington, DC

‘Some chicken! Some neck!’, 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa

‘I demand a Vote of Confidence’, 27 January 1942, House of Commons

‘Singapore has fallen’, 15 February 1942, Broadcast, London

Prime Minister for two years, 10 May 1942, Broadcast, London

Motion of Censure, 2 July 1942, House of Commons

The bright gleam of victory’, 10 November 1942, Mansion House, London

‘The frontiers of deliverance’, 29 November 1942, World Broadcast, London

‘The Desert Army’, 3 February 1943, Tripoli

Tribute to Montgomery and Alexander, 11 February 1943, House of Commons

‘Heavier work lies ahead’, 19 May 1943, Congress, Washington, DC

‘We expect no reward’, 30 June 1943, Guildhall, London

The gift of a common tongue’, 6 September 1943, Harvard, Boston

‘A sense of crowd and urgency’, 28 October 1943, House of Commons

‘The hour of our greatest effort’, 26 March 1944, Broadcast, London

D-Day, 6 June 1944, House of Commons

‘The price in blood . . . for the soil of France’, 28 September 1944, House of Commons

‘Democracy is no harlot’, 8 December 1944, House of Commons

‘We demand unconditional surrender’, 18 January 1945, House of Commons

‘Greece forever!’, 14 February 1945, Constitution Square, Athens

The Yalta Conference, 27 February 1945, House of Commons

Lloyd George, 28 March 1945, House of Commons

President Roosevelt, 17 April 1945, House of Commons

‘No words can ever express the horror’, 19 April 1945, House of Commons

Victory in Europe, 8 May 1945, House of Commons and Broadcast, London

‘This is your victory’, 8 May 1945, Ministry of Health, London

‘Forward, till the whole task is done’, 13 May 1945, Broadcast, London

Back to party politics, 4 June 1945, Broadcast, London

General Eisenhower, 12 June 1945, Mansion House, London

‘Dear Desert Rats’, 21 July 1945, Winston Club, Berlin

Resignation, 26 July 1945, 10 Downing Street

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  The Sunset Years 1945–63

The atomic bomb, 6 August 1945, 10 Downing Street

Surrender of Japan, 15 August 1945, House of Commons

Alamein, 25 October 1945, Royal Albert Hall, London

‘We did not flinch’, 31 October 1945, Harrow School

‘The unnecessary war’, 16 November 1945, Belgian Parliament, Brussels

‘An Iron Curtain has descended’, 5 March 1946, Fulton, Missouri

‘The tragedy of Europe’, 9 May 1946, The Hague, Holland

Palestine, 1 August 1946, House of Commons

A ‘United States of Europe’, 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

‘A property-owning democracy’, 5 October 1946, Blackpool

The Communist menace, 24 October 1946, Loughton

Palestine: ‘Blood and shame’, 31 January 1947, House of Commons

‘United Europe’, 14 May 1947, Royal Albert Hall, London

The rights of the British, 4 October 1947, Brighton

‘Shabby moneylenders!’, 28 October 1947, House of Commons

‘Socialism is the philosophy of failure’, 28 May 1948, Perth

‘When they get the atomic bomb’, 9 October 1948, Llandudno, Wales

The North Atlantic Treaty, 12 May 1949, House of Commons

The Berlin Airlift, 21 July 1949, House of Commons

‘Prenez-garde! Je vais parler en français’,
12 August 1949, Strasbourg, France

‘Watch out! I am going to speak in French’ (translation), 12 August 1949, Strasbourg, France

‘English literature is a glorious inheritance’, 2 November 1949, London

‘Our Socialist masters’, 9 February 1950, Devonport

‘An experiment in freedom’, 18 May 1950, Edinburgh

‘This century of tragedy and storm’, 4 July 1950, Dorchester Hotel, London

‘Renewing the glory of our island home’, 21 July 1951, Woodford

‘Regain our independence’, 23 October 1951, Plymouth

‘The valiant champion of freedom’, 9 November 1951, Guildhall, London

‘We must not lose hope!’, 17 January 1952, Congress, Washington, DC

King George VI,
7
February 1952, Broadcast, London

‘The treacherous trap-door’, 11 June 1952, Savoy Hotel, London

‘The spirit of England’, 23 April 1953, London, and Broadcast

‘The Crown and Parliament’, 27 May 1953, St Stephen’s, Westminster

‘Supreme catastrophe’, 3 November 1953, House of Commons

‘A calmer and kindlier age’, 9 November 1954, Guildhall, London

‘The nation . . . had the lion-heart’, 30 November 1954, Westminster Hall

‘Never despair!’, 1 March 1955, House of Commons

‘The Queen!’, 4 April 1955, 10 Downing Street

‘Let us go boldly forward’, 21 June 1955, Guildhall, London

Honorary US Citizenship, 9 April 1963, The White House, Washington, DC

Appendix: The Churchill Center and Societies

Index

Illustrations

1  
The Orator with his editor, 10 Downing Street, 1952
(Winston S. Churchill Collection)

2  
‘Escape!’ Durban Town Hall, South Africa, 23 December 1899
(Churchill Press Photo Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre Cambridge, CHPH IB/11, Odhams
Press
)

3  
Electioneering in Manchester, 1908
(Churchill Press Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge,
CHPH IB/15, Daily Mirror
)

4  
Winston visits Clementine’s munitions workers’ canteen, Enfield, 1915
(Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, BRDW 1, photo 1
)

5  
Electioneering on the way back to Westminster, 1924
(Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, BRDW 11, photo 513
)

6  
Welcoming home the crew of HMS
Exeter,
Plymouth, 1940
(Churchill Press Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, CHPH 12/F1/31, Fox
)

7  
‘Their Finest Hour’, House of Commons, 18 June 1940
(Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, copyright
Winston S. Churchill
)

8  
‘The Few’, House of Commons, 20 August 1940
(Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, copyright
Winston
S.
Churchill
)

9  
Thanking the ship’s company of HMS
Prince of Wales
on return from the Atlantic Charter meeting, 19 August 1941
(courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, ref. H12856
)

10  
Address to a Joint Session of Congress, 26 December 1941
(Winston S. Churchill Collection
)

11  
Address to men of Britain’s victorious Desert Army in the Roman amphitheatre of Carthage, 1 June 1943
(courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum,
ref NA3255
)