SECRET SESSION SPEECHES

Author: Winston Spencer Churchill and (Compiler) Charles Meade

Publisher: Cassell

Year published: 1946

Pagination: 96pp, 16 photos

Condition: blue cloth, ragged dw, slight foxing, g

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Winston Churchill made five speeches of major importance in secret sessions of the House of Commons during WWII. The speeches were not recorded at the time. Churchill had, however, either prepared full texts or made extensive notes. After the war he gave the relevant papers to Charles Meade with authority to compile this volume. The Fall of France June 1940: Parliament in the Air Raids Sept 1940: the Battle of the Atlantic June 1941: the Fall of Singapore April 1942: Admiral Darlan and the N Africa Landings Dec 1942.