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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill´s Famous Speeches
Winston Churchill
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Description for Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill´s Famous Speeches
Paperback. A collection of thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Winston Churchill gradually honed his rhetoric. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty.
In this volume, David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Churchill gradually hones his rhetoric until the day when, with spectacular effect, 'he mobilized the English language, and sent it into battle' (Edward R. Murrow).
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141442068
SKU
V9780141442068
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About Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. A prolific writer, whose works include The Second World War and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. David Cannadine was born in Birmingham in 1950. He is the editor and ... Read more
Reviews for Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill´s Famous Speeches
"Churchill was a word-spinner of genius. . . . A splendid anthology." -The Sunday Telegraph (London)