This is a fascinating tour through the tides of events that have shaped the last one hundred years. By examining different worldviews and exploring how they have developed, Chris shows how we can come a step closer to understanding others and avoiding the mistakes of the past.
Fresh and relevant, this is a book that will make you stop in your tracks and think about what is really happening in the world today.
Available in hardback and paperback and for Kindle and published in English, Korean, Japanese, Russian and Portuguese. Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer's lament to 'The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana', Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech of signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearse's rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obama's momentous US election night victory speech.
Alongside these are the finest war cries of Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King's prophetic 'I have a dream' and 'I've seen the promised land' speeches, the inspiring words of JFK and impassioned pleas from Nelson Mandela - the first at his trial in and the second on his election as president of South Africa in Speeches that Changed the World presents over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from throughout history.
Complete with a potted biography of each speaker, and telling the story of why each oration was significant and what happened as a result, this is a gripping history of the world told through its greatest and most impassioned speeches. History Nonfiction Politics Reference More Details. Simon Sebag Montefiore 61 books 1, followers.
He has won prizes in both non-fiction and fiction. Montefiore weaves a tight, satisfying plot, delivering surprises to the last page. Stalin's chilling charisma is brilliantly realised. The novel's theme is Love: family love, youthful romance, adulterous passion. One Night in Winter is full of redemptive love and inner freedom. Doomed love at the heart of a violent society is the heart of Montefiore's One Night in Winter Our fear for the children keeps up turning the pages We follow the passions with sympathy The knot of events tugs at a wide range of emotions rarely experienced outside an intimate tyranny.
His ease with the setting and historical characters is masterly. The book maintains a tense pace. Uniquely terrifying. His ability to paint Stalin in such a way to make the reader quake with fire is matched by talent for creating truly heartbreaking characters: the children who find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy, the parents….
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