The Dawn Of Liberation: The Fifth Volume Of Winston Churchill's War Speeches (1945) By Charles Eade
 
The Dawn of Liberation is the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches.  This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944.   

A full and momentous year, 1944 of course included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe.  

While much fighting was yet to come and the war was not yet over, as 1944 drew to a close the suspended tensions of domestic politics as well as the complex jockeying for postwar spoils among allies intruded ever more urgently on a unified war effort.  

This unrest as victory gained imminence is intimated in the final pages of The Dawn of Liberation.  A 31 December 1944 message to the Primrose League stated, "To-day we are entering upon a year that should bring us victory in Europe... Until that end has been achieved there can be no return to our normal habits.  It would be tragic folly to prolong, by any slackening in the last phase, the agony that a megalomaniac ambition has loosed upon the world."

Churchill would be unable to hold the many political fractures and frustrations at bay for much longer, and would suffer an abrupt electoral upset before the war was officially won.  Indeed, the very day the British first edition of The Dawn of Liberation was published (26 July 1945) Churchill formally conceded the fall of his wartime government to Labor in the General Election of July 1945.

During his long public life, Winston Churchill played many roles worthy of note - Member of Parliament for more than half a century, soldier and war correspondent, author of scores of books, ardent social reformer, combative cold warrior, painter, Nobel Prize winner. But Churchill's preeminence as a historical figure owes most to his indispensable leadership during the Second World War, when his soaring and defiant oratory sustained his countrymen and inspired the free world.  Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said, "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."
 
1st Australian Edition
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
314 pages
In Fair to Good Condition