Secret Session Speeches

Winston S. Churchill

• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780795329432
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

This collection of addresses to the House of Commons during WWII provides unique insight into the British Prime Minister's wartime leadership. During World War II, security was so precarious that the House of Commons was at times forced to meet in secret in order to keep its counsel from reaching the enemy. On five separate occasions between 1940 and 1942, Winston Churchill addressed the secret assembly. Those fateful speeches are reproduced in this collection. Here, Churchill delivers his immediate reactions to the fall of France, the discovery of a vast enemy armada in the English Channel, and the fall of Singapore, which may have been the most heartbreaking and costly military failure of Churchill's career. These speeches offer intimate insight into Churchill's thinking in this highly consequential period. Originally published in 1945, Secret Sessions Speeches provides fascinating context to some of World War II's most significant events—and continue to carry great weight and meaning today.

Table of contents

• COVER
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• CONTENTS
• THE FALL OF FRANCE. June 20, 1940
• PARLIAMENT IN THE AIR RAIDS. September 17, 1940
• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, 1941. June 25, 1941
• THE FALL OF SINGAPORE. April 23, 1942
• ADMIRAL DARLAN AND THE NORTH AFRICAN LANDINGS. December 10, 1942