Winston Churchill
"Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"
"Be Ye Men of Valour"
"Their Finest Hour"
Excerpts from selected speeches delivered in the spring of 1940 Printed in Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill Published in 1990
After Adolf Hitler was named chancellor (chief officer) of Germany in 1933, the German government stepped up efforts to expand its territory in Europe. An extremely dangerous leader who seemed to have a spellbinding grasp on his followers, Hitler had spent the previous decade building up the National Socialist German Workers' Party (or Nazi Party for short). The Nazis encouraged the growing nationalist movement in Germany—a movement that glorified all things German and demanded blind devotion to the party's beliefs.
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain (the chief officer of the British government) sought...
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