Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches (Penguin Classics)

The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this volume, David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years, demonstrating how Churchill gradually hones his rhetoric until the day when, with spectacular effect, 'he mobilized the English language, and sent it into battle' (Edward R. Murrow).

• Churchill: The Power of Words
• Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
• My Early Life: 1874-1904
• Memoirs of the Second World War
• The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill
• Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches: Vol 1: Never Give In!
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
• The World Crisis, 1911-1918
• Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
• Look Back in Anger (Penguin Plays)