Victory

Victory Synopsis

The Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister's historic speeches from the final year of WWII are collected in this essential volume. During the final eight months of World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave some of the most brilliant and consequential speeches of his career. Here are Churchill's war status reports delivered to the House of Commons, his rousing statements to the British people, and his global broadcasts, including his announcement of Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8th, 1945. These speeches detail Churchills public reactions to the forming of the United Nations, the death of Roosevelt, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, and, lastly, the election that defeats him. Perhaps most notable is the Gestapo speech of 1945, in which Churchill made a controversial comparison between a Socialist government and the Gestapoan extremely charged word at that timethat many believe cost him his job as Prime Minister.