«You do your worst, and we will do our best» - Sir W. Churchill

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Click here to visit the play-list with nine of Sir Winston Churchill's speeches during WWII:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1AE517D3714DDEE1
My favourite of all Sir Winston Churchill's speeches, with visual guideline following the words. Some, as it is not very important, only the speech is. Delivered shortly after the infamous Blitz in which London and other major British cities were brutally bombed for 76 - but 1 - consecutive nights the speech is quite special once it testifies to the infinite fortitude and genuine belief Churchill possessed that Britain - unlike continental Europe - would not be enslaved by the Nazis. After the invasion of Poland, Low Countries rapid defeat and French collapse under the unforgiving German Blitzkrieg the Germans were not exactly sure what to do next: Adolf Hitler believed the war was over and the Britons would come to terms very soon. It wasn't his wish to occupy or make war with Britain as the German's Fuhrer was aware that both Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force would provoke extensive damage and heavy casualties to his armies. Hitler wasn't afraid of England but rather hesitant: the English channel made impossible for the German army to follow on the Blitzkrieg war making it had so easily conquered them most of continental Europe in only a few months so, given this circumstance, the obvious and unquestionable Nazi military superiority wasn't so obvious in case of a war with England. Coming to terms or obtaining her neutrality was him aim.
At the same time, in England, a section of the public and a sector of its politicians were ready and willing to do just that: negotiate. Churchill, however, wasn't, and that was his first merit with regard to the Nazi threat: having the necessary presence of spirit to understand such scenario would - at the time, 1940 - immediately mean a complete domination of Europe by the Nazis, with England included, even if their armies weren't physically present on British soil.
That suppression or oppression he wasn't prepared to accept. As he didn't, and the confrontation was therefore inevitable. By the time this speech was delivered, after the brutal Blitz, London was shattered, and cities like Coventry were called into ruins.

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