Sir Winston Churchill Speech - We shall fight

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We Shall Fight on the Beaches is a common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 4, 1940. This was the second of three major speeches given during (roughly) the period of the Battle of France, with the others designated as the Blood, toil, tears, and sweat speech of May 13th, and the This was their finest hour speech of June 18th. Events developed dramatically over the five-week period, and although broadly similar in themes, each speech addresses a different military and diplomatic context, in which it should be approached. In this speech, Churchill had to describe a great military disaster, and warn of a possible Nazi German invasion attempt, without casting doubt on eventual victory
prepare his domestic audience for France's falling out of the war without in any way releasing the French Republic to do so
reiterate a policy and an aim unchanged - despite the intervening events - from his speech of May 13th, in which he had said:
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be

Sir Winston Churchill Speech - We shall fight

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