A wartime Portuguese broadside featuring the peroration of Churchill’s speech of 4 June 1940 after the evacuation at Dunkirk
$225 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector
Portugal: circa 1940. Broadside. This intriguing Second World War Portuguese broadside features a photograph of Winston Churchill alongside the closing lines from Churchill's address before the House of Commons of 4 June 1940 after the evacuation at Dunkirk.Just two weeks after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister in May 1940, swift Nazi subjugation of France required rescue of Allied forces trapped in northern France. An incredible mobilization of British civilians helped effect
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