Speech Broadcast by The Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill April 27, 1941.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

Item Number: 124538

New York: The British Library of Information, 1941.

First edition of Churchill’s famed wartime speech. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

Churchill’s wartime speeches “constitute a contemporary history of the war which is as lively as it is authoritative; and, so far as contemporary history is of value, they may be said to be the last word upon the war” (Randolph S. Churchill). Delivered on April 27th, 1941, Churchill concluded this rousing speech with the famed lines from Longfellow: "For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, seen here no painful inch to gain, far back, through creeks and inlets making, comes silent, flooding in , the main. And not by eastern windows only, when daylight comes in the light; in front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!"