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2. This was their finest hour - Wikipedia

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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.

3. The Second World War (book series) - Wikipedia

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   Reynolds noted that in Their Finest Hour Churchill sometimes engaged in national stereotypes. In his account of his summit with the French Premier Paul Reynaud on 16 May 1940, Churchill portrayed Reynaud along with Maurice Gamelin and Édouard Daladier as hopelessly defeatist figures, reflecting the faiblesse of France in contrast to the ...

4. Darkest Hour (film) - Wikipedia

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   Darkest Hour is a 2017 British biographical war drama film directed by Joe Wright and written by Anthony McCarten.It stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, in his early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and the May 1940 war cabinet crisis.

5. We shall fight on the beaches - Wikipedia

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   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 1940, and the "This was their finest hour" speech of 18 June 1940. Events developed dramatically over the five-week period, and although broadly similar in themes, each speech addressed ...

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

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   In 1940, following the fall of France, Mr Churchill sought to rally Britons to resist the Nazis – telling the country that it would be remembered as their “finest hour”. The illegal and ...

7. 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

8. Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Wikipedia

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   World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill – all members of Bomber command "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" [a] was a wartime speech delivered to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by British prime minister Winston Churchill on 20 August 1940. [1]

9. Winston Churchill in the Second World War - Wikipedia

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   Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour". Churchill was determined to fight back and ordered the commencement of the Western Desert campaign on 11 June, an immediate response to the Italian ...