CHURCHILL | Conquer We Shall, 1940

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December 8, 02:39 PM GMT

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500 - 700 GBP

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CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON


Conquer We Shall. Speech broadcast by the Prime Minister ... On May 19th, 1940. [Ministry of Information (?), 1940]


8vo, FIRST EDITION, unbound leaflet as issued


"...Behind the Armies and Fleets of Britain and France - gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians - upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall..."

THE FIRST EDITION OF CHURCHILL'S FIRST BROADCAST SPEECH AS PRIME MINISTER.


LITERATURE:

Cohen A121