Speeches that Changed the World. These titles have now generated
sales of approximately 300,000 copies , and continue to sell strongly
around the world
| Title: |
Speeches
That Changed the World |
| Author: |
Simon Sebag Montefiore |
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| Category: |
Audio |
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| Publication: |
August 2007 |
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| Format: |
Audio CD |
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| Price: |
£16.99 |
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| ISBN: |
978847242198 |
To buy:
Contains over 50
momentous speeches from a wide range of historical eras and
nations. This book includes biographies of each speaker, the
history of why each speech was significant and what happened as a
result.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian and
writer. His book Catherine the Great & Potemkin
was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh
Biography Prizes. His
Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year
Prize at the British Book
Awards. His new book, Young Stalin, is its prequel. A Fellow of
the Royal Society of
Literature, his bestselling books are published in 27 languages.
KEYNOTE
Hear the twentieth century’s greatest orators speak the very
words that made history.
Quercus Audiobook Details
Non-Fiction/History
Audio CD £12.99
2 x 80 minute CD
24 page full colour booklet
containing biographies of
each speaker
Running time 160 minutes
ISBN 1 84724 219 7
(978 1 84724 219 8)
SALES POINTS
Authentic recordings of
the twentieth century’s
greatest speeches
Introduced by bestselling
historian Simon Sebag
Montefiore
300,000 copies of book-only
edition in print in the
English language
SYNOPSIS
This gripping CD provides genuine historical recordings of 20 of
the most significant
speeches of the 20th century, each introduced by acclaimed
historian Simon Sebag
Montefiore. This is an unusual and fascinating potted history of
the twentieth century:
a history of humanity told through the speeches that shaped it.
Includes the audio of:
• Neville
Chamberlain. 'Peace for our time’.
• Winston
Churchill. 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and
sweat'.
• Winston
Churchill. 'This was their finest hour'.
• Winston
Churchill. 'Never … was so much owed by so many to so few'.
• Franklin D.
Roosevelt. 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'.
• Franklin D.
Roosevelt. ‘A date which will live in infamy'.
• General
Douglas MacArthur. ‘I have just left your fighting sons in
Korea’
• Jawaharlal
Nehru. ‘At the stroke of the midnight hour… India will awake to
life and freedom’.
• Nelson
Mandela. 'I am the First Accused'.
• Nelson
Mandela. 'Free at last'.
• John F.
Kennedy. 'Ask not what our country can do for you'.
• John F.
Kennedy. 'Ich bin ein Berliner'.
• Martin
Luther King Jnr. 'I have a dream'.
• Martin
Luther King Jnr. 'I've seen the promised land'.
• Pierre
Trudeau. 'Who are the kidnap victims?'
• Richard M.
Nixon. 'There can be no whitewash at the White House'.
• Chaim
Herzog. ‘Hate, ignorance and evil’.
• Mother
Teresa. 'Love begins at home'.
• Ronald
Reagan. 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall'.
• F.W. de
Klerk. 'The time for negotiation has arrived'.
• George W.
Bush. ‘A great people has been moved to defend a great nation’.
(c) Copyright. Quercus. 2007.
