Great Speeches in History
Published by Naxos Audiobooks
Narrated by Samuel West, Elizabeth Bell, Peter Marinker and Norman Rodway
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From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln – here are some of history’s most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the finest resources of language in the service of the most dramatic issues of their day.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I guess I'm not into speeches or I'm not familiar with the events, none of them is recent, all hundreds or thousands years old. It somehow failed to captivate me.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5First few chapterd are from known figures but later the focus is aľost exclusively on Britain ˇ.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read the audio version of this, which was definitely the way to go. The collection includes great speeches by a variety of historical figures. Each one is read beautifully, giving full weight to the significance of the moment with a brief explanation of who gave the speech and what the context was. I wish a few more speeches had been included. The collection is a small one and there are so many more that could have given the book even more weight.