| Description |
1 online resource (55 entries) : 14 images |
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Introduction -- 1. Emmeline Pankhurst : 'The laws that men have made' (24 March 1908) -- 2. Vladimir Ilich Lenin : 'To the workers, everything; to the toilers, everything!' (30 August 1918) -- 3. Mahatma Gandhi : 'Why do we want to offer this non-cooperation?' (12 August 1920) -- 4. Benito Mussolini : 'We must win the peace' (25 June 1923) -- 5. Franklin D Roosevelt : 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' (4 March 1933) -- 6. La Pasionaria : 'They shall not pass!' (19 July 1936) -- 7. Edward VIII : 'I lay down my burden' (11 December 1936) -- 8. Neville Chamberlain : 'This country is now at war with Germany' (3 September 1939) -- 9. Winston Churchill : 'We shall fight on the beaches' (4 June 1940) -- 10. Joseph Stalin : 'The issue is one of life and death for the Soviet state' (3 July 1941) -- 11. Joseph Goebbels : 'Let the storm break loose' (18 February 1943) -- 12. Heinrich Himmler : 'I am talking about ... the extermination of the Jewish people' (4 October 1943) -- 13. Charles de Gaulle : 'Paris outraged! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated!' (25 August 1944) -- 14. Ho Chi Minh : 'Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country' (2 September 1945) -- 15. David Ben-Gurion : 'We dedicate today this Road of Valour' (12 December 1948) -- 16. Albert Einstein : 'Security through national armament is ... a disastrous illusion' (19 February 1950) -- 17. Nikita Khrushchev : 'The cult of the individual and its harmful consequences' (25 February 1956) |
| Summary |
50 Speeches That Made The Modern World is a celebration of the most influential and thought-provoking speeches that have shaped the world we live in. With comprehensive, chronological coverage of speeches from the 20th and 21st centuries, taken from all corners of the globe |
| Notes |
Title page of print version |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc. -- 20th century
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Speeches, addresses, etc. -- 21st century
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Speeches, addresses, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burnet, Andrew, editor
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Bailey, Nancy E. M, contributor
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| ISBN |
9781786842329 |
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1786842327 |
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