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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition / 1st Printing (Houghton Mifflin - 1989). Gently read if at all. No marks. No wear. LIKE NEW in like new dust jacket. DJ in protective mylar. . . . . A collection of thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Winston Churchill gradually honed his rhetoric. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART ONE: Mastering his voice, 1900-1917: 1.) The maiden speech -- 2.) The Transvaal constitution -- 3.) Haranguing the hustings -- 4.) The Navy's task -- 5.) The Dardanelles scapegoat -- 6.) A disastrous proposal ------- PART TWO: Scorning and warning, 1917-1939: 7.) The Bolshevik menace -- 8.) A budget broadcast -- 9.) The Indian threat -- 10.) Britain's air defences -- 11.) The failure to re-arm -- 12.) Munich ------- PART THREE: Mobilizing the English language, 1940: 13.) The new administration -- 14.) The impending ordeal -- 15.) Dunkirk -- 16.) Alone -- 17.) The Battle of Britain -- 18.) On the death of Neville Chamberlain ------- PART FOUR: Waging the war of words, 1941-1945: 19.) Appeal to America -- 20.) A difficult time -- 21.) The widening conflict -- 22.) A no-confidence motion repulsed -- 23.) On the death of Lloyd George -- 24.) On the death of Franklin Roosevelt -- 25.) Victory in Europe ------- PART FIVE: Speaking with different tongues, 1945-1955: 26.) Electioneering once more -- 27.) Final review of the War -- 28.) The Soviet danger -- 29.) 5.) European unity -- 30.) Tribute to George VI -- 31.) Debate on the address -- 32.) Eightieth birthday -- 33.) Swan song.
Quarter Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over dark green boards with gilt lettering embossed on spine, rough cut pages, gray endpapers, illustrated in black and white throughout, 355 pp. Dust jacket price clipped. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Leicester University Press/St. Martin's Press Inc., Leicester / New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0312598033 ISBN 13: 9780312598037
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