The Roar of the Lion
The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches
(Sprache: Englisch)
The essential book on Winston Churchill's classic World War II speeches - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever.
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The essential book on Winston Churchill's classic World War II speeches - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever.
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''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator ", "He's no speaker, is he? "' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942.The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were energized and inspired by his speeches, which were almost universally admired and played an important role in the ultimate victory over Nazi Germany. Richard Toye now re-examines this accepted national story - and gives it a radical new spin. Using survey evidence and the diaries of ordinary people, he shows how reactions to Churchill's speeches at the time were often very different from what we have always been led to expect. His first speeches as Prime Minister in the dark days of 1940 were by no means universally acclaimed - indeed, many people thought that he was drunk during his famous 'finest hour' broadcast - and there is little evidence that they made a decisive difference to the British people's will to fight on.In actualfact, as Toye shows, mass enthusiasm sat side-by-side with considerable criticism and dissent from ordinary people. Yes, there were speeches that stimulated, invigorated, and excited many. But there were also speeches which caused depression and disappointment in many others, and which sometimes led to workplace or family arguments. Yet this more complex reality has been consistently obscured from the historical record by the overwhelming power of a treasured national myth.The first systematic, archive based examination of Churchill's World War II rhetoric as a whole, The Roar of the Lion considers his oratory not merely as a series of 'great speeches', but as calculated political interventions which had diplomatic repercussions far beyond the effect on the morale of listeners in Britain. Considering his failures as well as his successes, the book moves beyond the purely celebratory tone of much of the existing literature. It offers new insight into howthe speeches were written and delivered -
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and shows how Churchill's words were received at home, amongst allies and neutrals, and within enemy and occupied countries. This is the essential book on Churchill's war-time speeches. It presents us with a dramatically new take on the politics of the 1940s - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Roar of the Lion “
INTRODUCTION; 1 THE EPITAPH OF CAPITALISM; 2 WINSTON WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING; 3 THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH ALL OVER AGAIN; 4 IF HITLER INVADED HELL; 5 HE'S NO SPEAKER, IS HE?; 6 WHAT A WAR-TIME SPEECH SHOULD BE, I SUPPOSE; 7 THROWING A TEMPERAMENT LIKE A BLOODY FILM STAR; 8 HUSH, HUSH, HUSH, HERE COMES THE BOGY MAN; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX: LISTENING FIGURES FOR CHURCHILL'S SPEECHES; INDEX
Autoren-Porträt von Richard Toye
Richard Toye was born in Cambridge in 1973. He studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge, and is currently Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. His books include Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness (2007), Churchill's Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made (2010), and Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction (2013, also published by Oxford University Press). He lives in Exeter with his wife and their two sons.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Toye
- 2013, 320 Seiten, Maße: 16,3 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199642524
- ISBN-13: 9780199642526
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.08.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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Thoroughly researched, readable and fascinating. David Reynolds, The Guardian [Richard Toye] provides a nuanced and discriminating account of the pivotal episode in Churchill's career. Peter Clarke, Financial Times Toye writes lucidly, and there is no sense of repetition in the book, which forensically examines one speech after another... [There] are still a lot of new aspects of Churchill's life to be explored. Toye has found one with this first ever, comprehensive, archival based study of WSC's splendid wartime speeches. History Today Toye's analysis of audience figures and personal diaries provides a fascinating insight into how the British public received Churchill's now much revered wartime speeches. Discover Your History magazine
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