Be Ye Men of Valour
BBC, May 19, 1940
First Broadcast as Prime Minister to the British People
By May 14, the news from the front was uniformly bad. The Germans had broken through the French defences at Sedan, and everywhere the French forces were reeling under a devastating barrage from land and air. “At almost all points [...]
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Winston Churchill: Be Ye Men of Valour – May 19, 1940
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Winston Churchill – Germany Invades Russia, June 22, 1941
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Minister Winston Churchill’s Broadcast on The Soviet-German War
London, June 22, 1941
I have taken occasion to speak to you tonight because we have reached one of the climacterics of the war. In the first of these intense turning points, a year ago, France fell prostrate under the German hammer and we had to face [...]
Winston Churchill: This is Your Victory, May 8, 1945
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This is Your Victory
May 8, 1945
Ministry of Health, London
During the celebrations that followed the announcement of the end of the war in Europe, Churchill and his principal colleagues appeared on the balcony of the Ministry of Health in Whitehall, and made two brief speeches to the vast crowd. After the words “This is your victory” [...]
