BRIAN MACARTHUR

From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama discover the most significant speeches of the modern era Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America speeches have profoundly influenced the way we see ourselves and society Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of the last century from Lenin to Reagan Thatcher to Malala Some are well known others less so but all helped form the world we now inhabit

From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the worlds greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Socrates, Robespierre, Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth I, Churchill, Washington, Pankhurst, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move and inspire today.Impeccable. MacArthur prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical explanation that sets the scene perfectly. An attractive volume Andrew Roberts, Sunday TimesWorks well not just as an anthology but as a historyIndependent on Sunday

From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, speeches have profoundly influenced the way we see ourselves and society.Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of the last century - from Lenin to Reagan, Thatcher to Malala. Some are well known, others less so, but all helped form the world we now inhabit.

Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthurs attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who were present at the events they describe. Those writings will be drawn from a broad range of sources: from, most obviously, the officers and men who served on the western front at the Somme and elsewhere, accounts of fear and tedium, horror and occasional joy; also from those were left behind on the home front to wait for news of their loved ones.As well as letters, diary entries and memoir extracts, the book will also include the songs sung in the trenches by the men at the front; there are poems too, the less well known alongside the familiar. The material reproduced will be linked by Brian MacArthurs commentary and notes to create a seamless and movingly immediate narrative of the First World War.