• 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

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.

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.