Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer's lament to ' The extraordinary & irreplaceable Diana' Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia Patrick Pearse's rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's mistreated Aborigines & Barack Obama's momentous US election night victory speech. Alongside these are the finest war cries of Winston Churchill Martin Luther King's prophetic 'I have a dream' & 'I've seen the promised land' speeches the inspiring words of JFK & impassioned pleas from Nelson Mandela
- the first at his trial in 1964 & the second on his election as president of South Africa in 1994. In addition are historic speeches from Elizabeth I Charles I Oliver Cromwell George Washington Napoleon Bonaparte Abraham Lincoln Emmeline Pankhurst Mahatma Gandhi Vladimir Lenin Neville Chamberlain Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles de Gaulle General George S. Patton J Robert Oppenheimer Mao Zedong Malcolm X Richard M. Nixon Pope John Paul II Vaclav Havel Elie Wiesel Mikhail Gorbachev & many other great historical figures. Speeches that Changed the World presents over 50 momentous & thought-provoking speeches from throughout history. Complete with a potted biography of each speaker & telling the story of why each oration was significant & what happened as a result this is a gripping history of the world told through its greatest & most impassioned speeches.