Author: CHURCHILL, Winston
Title: A Speech by the Prime Minister the Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940
Description: [London], [Bayard Press for the Ministry of Information], [1940]. First Edition. Wraps. Publisher's pale blue card wrappers printed in maroon, stapled (6" x 9-5/8"), with the code and date 8/40 on the last leaf, 16 pages; housed in a dark blue morocco-backed cloth clamshell case. The rousing, historic address given by Churchill which includes his famous praise for the Royal Air Force for its role in the Battle of Britain, the first major air campaign to be fought entirely by air forces: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." . Some slight rusting of staples, toning and foxing of covers and first page of text, crease in lower corner, a few pencil marks in the margins. Very Good in a Fine clamshell case If the Gettysburg Address is one of the most moving statements of democracy confronted by tragedy, Churchill's historic exhortations are its equal in their ringing assertion of democracy confronting the seemingly irresistible forces of tyranny. At the time when Great Britain stood alone against the weight of Nazi and Fascist aggression, her allies either prostrate or yet to join her, the gap between destruction and survival seemed a very narrow one. In it stood nothing much but the resolution of the islanders and the indomitable figure of their Prime Minister. He himself maintained that it was the people of Britain who had the lion's heart; that he was merely privileged to make it roar" (PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 424).

Keywords: Speeches, Winston Churchill, England, Nobel Prize, History, World War II Speeches Literature: English England History


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