June 18, 2010
THEIR FINEST HOUR in The New York Times
An Excellent Anniversary Article
"Seventy years ago, on June 18, 1940," begins a terrific article by John Burns in the June 17 issue of the New York Times, "Winston Churchill, barely six weeks in office as Britain’s prime minister and confronted with the threat of invasion from Nazi-occupied France, rose in the House of Commons and, in 36 minutes of soaring oratory, sought to rally his countrymen with what has gone down in history as his 'finest hour' speech."
Under the header: Cambridge Journal, Burns tours the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge with its director Allen Packwood, examining Churchill's original draft of the speech and other related rarities of Churchillian ephemera.
For almost a year now, we have been selling WITH WINGS LIKE EAGLES: A History of The Battle of Britain, a terrific new book by Michael Korda about the focal point of Churchill's rhetoric that day, The Battle of Britain. SIGNED copies are still available.