Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death

di Jonathan Locke Hart (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965, speeches in war and peace, during the aggression Hitler and others in the Second World War , and concentrates on foreign affairs. The study studies the words of Churchill and the responses to them and to his retirement and death. The book will appeal to those interested in Churchill, freedom, tyranny, diplomacy, war and conflict, democracy, politics, the 1940s, the Second World War, the Cold War, Britain, the English-speaking world, Canada, the United States, the British Empire and Commonwealth, Europe, France, Asia, Germany, Japan, totalitarianism, Parliament and legislative assemblies, rhetoric, language, style, speech-writing, oral and written communication, literature, history and other areas. The debate between autocracy and the tyrannical totalitarian on the one hand and democracy on the other is the debate of those times and ours. The reader will find many parallels, some chilling, with our own times. Churchill and his contemporaries have much to teach us. We learn from Churchill in life and death, his words echoing in our times.

• Autore: Jonathan Locke Hart
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 252 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 657 gr.
• EAN: 9781032536217

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