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  2. This was their finest hour - Wikipedia

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    The speech was delivered to the Commons at 3:49 pm, [7] and lasted 36 minutes. Churchill, as was his habit, made revisions to his 23-page typescript right up to and during the speech. The final passage of his typescript was laid out in blank verse format, which Churchill scholars consider reflective of the influence of the Psalms on his oratory ...

  3. We shall fight on the beaches - Wikipedia

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    We shall fight on the beaches" was a speech delivered by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given around the period of the Battle of France ; the others are the " Blood, toil, tears and sweat " speech of 13 May ...

  4. Finest hour - Wikipedia

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    The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue, a book by Michael J. Tougias which was adapted for the namesake 2016 film; Their Finest Hour, the second volume of the first hardcover edition of The Second World War (book series), Winston Churchill's history of World War II

  5. Category:World War II speeches - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 08:39 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. The Darkest Hour - Wikipedia

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    "The Darkest Hour" is a phrase used to refer to an early period of World War II, from approximately mid-1940 to mid-1941. While widely attributed to Winston Churchill , the origins of the phrase are unclear.

  7. Johnson salutes Ukraine’s ‘finest hour’ in speech to ...

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    In a speech by video link to the Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday, the Prime Minister will echo the words of Winston Churchill as he sets out a new £300 million package of support for the Ukrainian ...

  8. Winston Churchill in the Second World War - Wikipedia

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    Churchill with US ambassador Joseph Kennedy in 1939.. On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War, Chamberlain appointed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the same position he had held at the beginning of the First World War.

  9. Opinion: The finest speech ever given in a presidential debate

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    Since all great speeches should have a title, I’m naming it “Chris Christie’s Retribution Speech.” To make a memorable argument in a debate, you need at least three things. First, the ...