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A deep crease in the ground - a dry watercourse, a khor - appeared where all had seemed smooth, level plain; and from it there sprang, with the suddenness of a pantomime effect and a high-pitched yell, a dense white mass of men nearly as long as our front and about twelve deep. A score of horsemen and a dozen bright flags rose as if by magic from the earth.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader … In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people … await the hour of liberation … That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

Review of The Man Within by Dr Warren Dockter...

Historian Dr Roland Quinalt talks about the influence of Lord Randolph Churchill on Winston Churchill at the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust’s 50th Anniversary Fellows’ Day, held at Blenheim Palace on 27th...

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A page from Churchill’s typewritten speech notes (set out in his usual ‘psalm’ style, to aid delivery) with the famous ‘this was their finest hour’ line (other phrases were very slightly...