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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches

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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches - Churchill, Winston, and Cannadine, David (Introduction by)
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The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this volume, David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Churchill gradually hones his rhetoric until the day when, with spectacular effect, 'he mobilized ...

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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches 2008, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780141442068

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