Brian MacArthur Libri

Magisterial history of the Japanese prisoner-of-war experience, a gut- wrenching narrative that resonates to this day.

FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, speeches have profoundly influenced the way we see ourselves and society.Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of the last century - from Lenin to Reagan, Thatcher to Malala. Some are well known, others less so, but all helped form the world we now inhabit.

A companion volume to the "Penguin Book of 20th Century Speeches". It goes further back, to the pre-modern speeches: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Robespierre, Gladstone's Midlothian Campaign, Nelson at Trafalgar and the classical orators.

Requiem is the remarkable testimony to the m ost traumatic and emotional week in post-war history. Never before have writers been so tested to articulate their feeli ngs and express a response to the tragedy that literally sho ok the world. '