Late Churchill

Language from Crisis to Death

Jonathan Locke Hart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000912036
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The book will appeal to those interested in Churchill, freedom, tyranny, diplomacy, war and conflict, democracy, politics, the Second World War, the Cold War, Britain, Canada, the United States, the British Empire and Commonwealth, Europe, France, Asia, Germany, Japan, totalitarianism, Parliament, legislative assemblies, rhetoric, language, style, speech-writing, oral and written communication, literature, history and other areas. The debate between autocracy (tyranny, totalitarianism) and democracy is in those times and ours, with many parallels, chilling. Churchill was key to our world history and is a key to understanding what is at stake in the world now.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Epigraph
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• 1 Prelude
• 2 Speeches, the Second Half of 1940
• 3 Speeches, 1941
• 4 Speeches, 1942
• 5 Speeches, 1942–1943
• 6 Speeches, 1944
• 7 Speeches, 1945–1946
• 8 Speeches and Words, 1946–1965
• 9 The Tributes at Churchill’s Retirement
• 10 The Tributes on the Death of Churchill
• 11 Coda
• Index