‘We shall fight on the beaches’: 3 things you never knew about Churchill’s most famous speech
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Professor Richard Toye, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10, Second World War
Ask anyone to name Winston Churchill’s best-known speech and nine times out of ten they will answer: We shall fight them on the beaches. It’s not an exact quotation – Churchill did not include the word ‘them’ – but the …