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Brian MacArthur

    Requiem
    The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches
    The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches
    Surviving the Sword
    • Surviving the Sword

      Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Magisterial history of the Japanese prisoner-of-war experience, a gut- wrenching narrative that resonates to this day.

      Surviving the Sword2005
      4.3
    • This is a general anthology of speeches. They range from the Sermon on the Mount to Kennedy's Ask not what speech, from the Gettysburg Address to Winston Churchill's war speeches, and from Adolf Hitler to Martin Luther

      The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches1999
      3.9
    • Requiem

      Memories and Tributes

      • 222 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Requiem is the remarkable testimony to the m ost traumatic and emotional week in post-war history. Never before have writers been so tested to articulate their feeli ngs and express a response to the tragedy that literally sho ok the world. '

      Requiem1997
    • The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      A companion volume to the "Penguin Book of 20th Century Speeches". It goes further back, to the pre-modern speeches: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Robespierre, Gladstone's Midlothian Campaign, Nelson at Trafalgar and the classical orators.

      The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches1995
      3.8