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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 ...
"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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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
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[6] Churchill's line has been called a "direct quotation" from Roosevelt's speech. [7] Churchill, a man with an American mother and a keen soldier, was likely to have read works by Theodore Roosevelt, who was a widely published military historian; it is also possible he read the speech after being appointed First Lord of the Admiralty , a ...