Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Speeches that Changed the World

Simon Sebag Montefiore
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May 2015
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Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencers lament to The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, Nikita Khrushchevs secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearses rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudds historic apology to Australias mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obamas momentous US election night victory speech.Alongside these are the finest war cries of Winston Churchill, Martin Luther Kings prophetic I have a dream and Ive seen the promised land speeches, the inspiring words of JFK and impassioned pleas from Nelson Mandela-the first at his trial in 1964 and the second on his election as president of South Africa in 1994. In addition are historic speeches from Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D.
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