The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time, Winston Churchill used language as a powerful weapon. This magnificent anthology includes thirty-three of the most famous orations, from his maiden speech in the House of Commons in 1901 to his swan song of 1955, via'his towering rhetoric of the Second World War. Here Churchill speaks about the disasters of the First World War, warns of the growing threat of the Nazis, cautions about the Cold War, bids farewell to a king after the death of George VI and, most importantly of all, rallies a nation at war against Hitler with spectacular effect.Many of his phrases have passed into everyday use, such as 'iron curtain' and 'the end of the beginning', and his magisterial speeches have become the stuff of legend.