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It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the Battle of France, after the "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech of 13 May and the "We shall fight on the beaches" speech of 4 June. [1] [2] "This was their finest hour" was made after France had sought an armistice on the evening of 16 June. [a]
That was 'our' finest hour at Bletchley Park". [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Then Churchill spoke to the codebreakers from a mound of builder's rubble at the end of Hut 6 in front of the house, saying with deep emotion "how grateful he was to us for all the good work we were doing in the war effort".
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Iron Curtain speech; N. ... This was their finest hour; W. We shall fight on the beaches; Winston Churchill's address to ...
On June 11, 1963, in his finest hour as president, Kennedy gives a televised address to the nation, vowing to send civil rights legislation to Congress. - Abbie Rowe/The White House/John F ...
Both my fictional White House staff and the viewing public recognized at the time that this was not President Bartlet’s finest hour. I myself urged Aaron Sorkin, the showrunner, to write a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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