This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs.The reader will find many parallels, some chilling, with our own times.

Jonathan Locke Hart received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in English and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Hart is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member of Academia Europea, and is Chair Professor, the School of Translation Studies, Shandong University. He is also Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto; Associate, Harvard University Herbaria; and Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. In recent years, he was Core Faculty, Comparative Literature, Western University and Chair Professor of the School of Foreign Languages and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing, Literary Culture and Translation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has written over twenty books and edited others and contributed book chapters. A winner of many international awards, including two Fulbrights to Harvard, and having served on national and international committees, including Fulbright and Killam, he has written over 100 articles and essays and has held visiting appointments at Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), Leiden, UC Irvine and elsewhere and has given classes, talks, readings and lectures internationally.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. 13 April 1933: Germany and Europe: Context of the Speeches Before Churchill's Speech
3. 13 April 1933 -- Germany and Europe: Churchill's Speech
4. 13 April 1933 --Germany and Europe: Responses to Churchill's Speech
5. Foreign Affairs, Speeches 1934-1935
6. Speeches, 1936-1937
7. 22 February 1938, Foreign Affairs, Speech
8. Speeches, 1939-1940
9. Speeches, the First Half of 1940
10. 10. Conclusion

Index