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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches
- Form
- Form Speech
- Year
- Year 1989
- Pages
- Pages 500
Three days into the job, with a House that had not wanted him and an army about to be driven into the sea at Dunkirk, Churchill told the country he had nothing to offer it but blood, toil, tears and sweat. What makes the speech extraordinary is that he offered nothing else: no plan, no rescue coming over the hill, only the promise of suffering and the flat conviction that the alternative was worse.
A miracle of deliverance, achieved by valour, by perseverance, by perfect discipline, by faultless service, by resource, by skill, by unconquerable fidelity
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