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#Radio100 Moment 8: Winston Churchill Delivers 'This Was Their Finest Hour' Speech(June 18, 1940)
June 18, 1940

Moment 8: Winston Churchill Delivers 'This Was Their Finest Hour' Speech

In one of his greatest speeches, delivered first before the House of Commons on June 18, 1940, and then broadcast to the nation on the radio, Winston Churchill inspires his countrymen to soldier on after the fall of France, assuring them that if Great Britain upholds its duty to fight, "men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"


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