Churchill Winston Spencer - Never give in! : the best of Winston Churchills speeches

Never Give In!

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Never Give In!

Winston Churchills Speeches

Selected and edited by his grandson

Winston S. Churchill

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First published in Great Britain in Hardback under the title Never Give In!

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Reissued under the title Winston Churchills Speeches by Pimlico in 2006

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Churchill, Winston, 18741965. Never give in! Winston Churchills speeches/selected and edited by his grandson Winston S. Churchill. Bloomsbury revelations edition. pages cm. (Bloomsbury revelations) Originally published: London : Pimlico, 2003. Summary: A collection of Winston Churchills most powerful speeches, from his early speeches, through the great war-time broadcasts and beyond Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4725-2085-2 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-4725-2086-9 (epub) 1. Churchill, Winston, 18741965. 2. Great BritainPolitics and government20th century. 3. Speeches, addresses, etc., English. 4. Political oratoryGreat Britain. I. Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), 19402010. II. Title. DA566.9.C5A5 2013 082dc232013025907

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Never give in, never give in,

never, never, never, never

in nothing, great or small,

large or petty

never give in

except to convictions of honour

and good sense!

Winston S. Churchill

Address to the boys of Harrow School, 29 October 1941

Contents

1 (Winston S. Churchill Collection)

2 (Churchill Press Photo Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre Cambridge, CHPH IB/11, Odhams Press )

3 (Churchill Press Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, CHPH IB/15, Daily Mirror )

4 (Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, BRDW 1, photo 1 )

5 (Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, BRDW 11, photo 513 )

6 (Churchill Press Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, CHPH 12/F1/31, Fox )

7 (Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, copyright Winston S. Churchill )

8 (Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, copyright Winston S. Churchill )

9 (courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, ref. H12856 )

10 (Winston S. Churchill Collection )

11 (courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, ref NA3255 )

12 (courtesy of the Trustees of the Imperial War Museum ref. H41846 )

13 (Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, BRDW 1, photo 1 )

(Churchill Press Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, CHPH 1A/F4/4A, Associated Press )

15-18 (Churchill Press Photographs, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, CHPH 3/F2/5457, by Doreen Spooner)

19 (Winston S.Churchill Collection )

20 (Broadwater Collection, Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge, BRDW 1, photo 1)

21 (Winston S. Churchill Collection)

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Winston Churchills rendez-vous with destiny came on 10 May 1940, with his appointment as Prime Minister in Britains hour of crisis. On that day Hitler launched his blitzkrieg against France, Belgium and the Low Countries, which was to smash all in its path. It was then that Winston Churchill, already 65 years of age and, as he put it, qualified to draw the Old Age Pension, deployed the power of his oratory. After years during which the British nation had heard only the voices of appeasement and surrender, suddenly a new note was sounded. In a broadcast to the nation on 19 May 1940, he declared: I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour in the life of our country, of our Empire, of our Allies and, above all, of the cause of Freedom.

After a graphic account of the devastating advances by Nazi forces on the Continent he continued: We have differed and quarrelled in the past; but now one bond unites us all to wage war until victory is won, and never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame, whatever the cost and agony may be.

The effect of his words was electric. Though the situation might appear hopeless, with the French and Belgian armies which had held firm during four long years of slaughter in the First World War crumbling in as many weeks in the face of the furious German assault, and the remnants of Britains small, ill-equipped army preparing to retreat to Dunkirk, and when many, even of Britains friends, believed that she, too, would be forced to surrender, Winston Churchill in the memorable phrase of that great American war-correspondent, Edward R. Murrow, mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.

With his innate understanding of the instincts and character of the British people, garnered from leading them in battle as a junior officer in conflicts on the North-West Frontier of India, in the Sudan and South Africa, as well as in the trenches of Flanders in the First World War, Churchill inspired the British nation to feats of courage and endurance, of which they had never known, or even imagined themselves capable. In his very first Address to the House of Commons, three days after becoming Prime Minister, he famously declared (13 May 1940): I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.