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Churchill’s ‘Their Finest Hour’ Speech ©The Churchill Archive. The disastrous military events which have happened during the past fortnight have not come to me with any sense of surprise.
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This was their finest hour" was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940, just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government.
Winston Churchill's Finest Hour speech, June 18, 1940, delivered at London, UK, to the House of Commons, full text transcript, audio.
Jun 17, 2005 · British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous "Finest Hour" speech marks its 65th anniversary Friday. It's widely considered one of the greatest political speeches ever, and rallied a...
His speech of June 18, 1940, delivered first in the House of Commons and then broadcast to the Nation, occurred against the backdrop of the fall of France, one of the darkest moments in British history.
The day after France fell to the Germans, Churchill made perhaps his finest speech of this period – commonly known now by its most famous phrase, ‘This was their Finest Hour’ – which was delivered to the House of Commons on 18 June and broadcast by the BBC to the nation later that evening.
In this powerful video, we explore one of the most iconic speeches in history - Winston Churchill's "This Was Their Finest Hour" address to the British people in the House of Commons during...
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