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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.
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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.
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 war-weary...
On June 18, 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a famous speech in Parliament, best known today for the phrase “This was their finest hour.” It is necessary to look at the context in which that speech originated.
Jun 18, 2013 · With Britain tottering on the abyss, its prime minister, Winston Churchill, gave one of the great rallying cries in world history, the "finest hour" speech of June 18, 1940. As Churchill wrote the...
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.