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Speeches that Changed the World The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments that Made History

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Speeches that Changed the World The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments that Made History

By Simon S Montefiore

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About the book

Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer's lament to 'The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana', Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearse's rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obama's momentous US election night victory speech. Alongside these are the finest war cries of Winston Church...Show more

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ISBN

9781847246059

Publisher

Quercus

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Speeches that Changed the World The Stories and Transcripts of the Moments that Made History

Format

Hardcover

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