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This was their finest hour. " 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 . It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the ...
Their Finest Hour, 1940. Volume 90%. 00:00. 30:46. I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command failed to withdraw the northern Armies from Belgium at the moment when they knew that the French front was decisively broken at Sedan and on the Meuse. This delay entailed the loss of fifteen or ...
Winston Churchill used many powerful oratorical figures in his speech “This was their finest hour”. The speech lasted as long as 36 minutes and was written on 23 pages, which means that it was significantly longer than Churchill’s other famous speeches (eg “Blood, toil, tears, and sweat” and “We shall fight on the beaches”) .
Jun 17, 2005 · Transcript. 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 ...
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. The final section of this speech has justly ...
It follows the full text transcript of Winston Churchill's Finest Hour speech, delivered to the House of Commons, London, UK - June 18, 1940. I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command failed to withdraw the northern Armies from Belgium at the moment when they knew that the French front ...
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Winston Churchill. "Finest Hour" speech, June 1940 This is an excerpt from one of Churchill's most famous pieces of oratory. 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.
