Great Speeches in Minutes

Jacob F. Field

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Quercus Publishing
07 November 2019

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'I have a dream', 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people', 'This was their finest hour', 'Tear down this wall', 'Give me liberty, or give me death', 'Free at last!'.

They are the great words of history, inspiring war and peace, outrage and justice, rebellion and freedom.

GREAT SPEECHES IN MINUTES presents the key extracts of 200 of the orations that changed the world, from antiquity to the modern day. Each is accompanied by an explanation of the historic context of the speech and its momentous consequences.

Includes the speeches of: Buddha, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Augustine of Hippo, Muhammad, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bolivar, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Patrick Pearse, Vladimir Lenin, David Lloyd George, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin D Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Lyndon B Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, Pope John Paul II, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and many more.

By: Jacob F. Field
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 126mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781787477230
ISBN 10: 1787477231
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 07 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Jacob F. Field is a research associate at the University of Cambridge, has a degree in history from the University of Oxford, and has taught economic and military history at Massey University and the University of Waikato. He has written and contributed to numerous books and academic papers and is the author of One Bloody Thing After Another, We Shall Fight on the Beaches, D-Day: The Facts Behind Operation Overlord and The Countries of the World In Minutes.

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Great Speeches in Minutes

Jacob F. Field

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