Great Speeches in Minutes

Name: Great Speeches in Minutes
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781787477230
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By Jacob F. Field

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Great Speeches in Minutes compiles key extracts from 200 historic orations spanning from antiquity to modern times. Each speech is accompanied by context explaining its significance and impact on history. The collection includes monumental addresses by figures such as Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth I, Mahatma Gandhi, and many others, showcasing words that inspired justice, freedom, peace, and rebellion.
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This book is ideal for history enthusiasts, students studying rhetoric or political speeches, and anyone interested in understanding the power of words that shaped world events.

200 historic speeches and the stories behind them.

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'I have a dream', 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people', 'This was their finest hour', 'Tear down this wall', 'Give me liberty, or give me death', 'Free at last!'. They are the great words of history, inspiring war and peace, outrage and justice, rebellion and freedom.

Great Speeches in Minutes presents the key extracts of 200 of the orations that changed the world, from antiquity to the modern day. Each is accompanied by an explanation of the historic context of the speech and its momentous consequences.

Includes the speeches of: Buddha, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Augustine of Hippo, Muhammad, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bolivar, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Patrick Pearse, Vladimir Lenin, David Lloyd George, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin D Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Lyndon B Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel, Pope John Paul II, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and many more.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781787477230

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Quercus Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 126.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

Dr Jacob F. Field is a research associate at the University of Cambridge, has a degree in history from the University of Oxford, and has taught economic and military history at Massey University and the University of Waikato. He has written and contributed to numerous books and academic papers and is the author of One Bloody Thing After Another, We Shall Fight on the Beaches, D-Day: The Facts Behind Operation Overlord and The Countries of the World In Minutes.

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