Selected House of Commons Speeches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected House of Commons Speeches, credited to Winston S. Churchill, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of selected House of Commons speeches by Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historical writer, and an artist. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected House of Commons Speeches
• Author credits: Winston S. Churchill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 9:20:38

Catalogue topics

• Britain
• government
• speech

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Maiden Speech,1901 — 20:15
2. 02 - Army Reform, 1901 — 42:40
3. 03 - The Amritsar Massacre, 1920 — 42:42
4. 04 - The Gold Standard Bill, 1925 — 49:56
5. 05 - The General Strike, 1926 — 24:37
6. 06 - German Rearmament, 1935 — 23:16
7. 07 - The Abdication, 1935 — 5:32
8. 08 - The Locust Years, 1936 — 38:07
9. 09 - How to Prevent War, 1938 — 32:49
10. 10 - The Annexation of Austria, 1938 — 18:56
11. 11 - A Total and Unmitigated Defeat, 1938 — 34:28
12. 12 - The oubreak of war, 1939 — 3:32
13. 13 - Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat, 1940 — 4:22
14. 14 - We Shall Fight on the Beaches, 1940 — 21:38
15. 15 - Their Finest Hour, 1940 — 26:40
16. 16 - The Few, 1940 — 30:06
17. 17 - Upon the death of Neville Chamberlain, 1940 — 9:13
18. 18 - Do Your Worst, 1941 — 5:08
19. 19 - Still Captain of Our Souls, 1941 — 2:24
20. 20 - I Offer No Excuses, 1942 — 24:15
21. 21 - The invasion of France, 1944 — 7:02
22. 22 - Upon the death of Franklin D Roosevelt, 1945 — 10:27
23. 23 - Victory in Europe, 1945 — 5:08
24. 24 - Victory Over Japan, 1945 — 37:37

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