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 enlarge | Author: John R Lukacs
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 136675
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 147
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0465002870
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.084092
EAN: 9780465002870
ASIN: 0465002870
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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 typo problem in the first batches May 30, 2008
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have received the book, but it has blank pages on page #67, 70, 71, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86, 87, 90, 91, 94, 95, 98 & 99. Think it is probably due to printing/binding errors. Thus I have just requested for a replacement copy from Amazon today.
The Power of Words May 23, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
This concise book goes beyond the actual speech of the title and allows for Professor Lukacs' informed and strong views about Prime Minister Churchill's bedrock thinking on the immense issues of civilization that were at stake in 1940.
I think this book will be most enjoyed by those readers having a fair prior understanding of the dismal political realities in Europe and America at the start of World War II.
 Worth the read May 18, 2008
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
Thankfully weighing in at only 147 pages, Lukacs looks at Chuchill's speeches during the desperate days of May and June 1940 , puts them in context, and gives us this Big Idea: only Churchill really understood what was at stake and that defeat would mean a new Dark Age. To fight on, even if defeated, would give hope and be a symbol for those hundreds of years later who might rise up and emerge from the darkness. Also of interest: why the way he treated Chamberlin after he was voted out and Churchill voted in made all the difference in preventing a peace at any price with Germany. Churchill was magnanimous to him, and Chamberlin appreciated it and so became an ally(albeit one who did not so much overtly support Churchill as one who did not obstruct his leadership). Lukacs quotes a bit of the speech that Churchill gave after Chamberlin died. I have read it before and it is powerful, the grasping of the gist of this truth: don't second guess, today's hero is tomorrow's goat, and back again. And then this gem:"The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions." Worthwhile read.
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