100 Wonders Of The India

• This book provides genuine historical footage of 20 of the most significant speeches of the 20th century and is accompanied by a deluxe illustrated book containing the transcripts of these and over 30 other momentous orations from throughout history.

• Complete with biographies of each speaker and the stories of why the world changed as a result, this is a fascinating history of humanity told through the speeches that shaped it.This book contains 48 speeches, or excerpts from speeches (mostly the latter).

• It starts with Moses (with the ten commandments, which is not actually a speech) and ends with George W. Bush. Each of the 48 sections contains a picture of the speaker (or representation for those for whom no likeness is known), a brief biography of the speaker and the context of the speech.

About The Author

• Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of Potemkin, Prince of Princes and the award winning Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.

• The DVD includes the following famous speeches:

  • 1) CHAMBERLAIN - Peace for our time
  • 2) HITLER - Speech to the Hitler youth
  • 3) GOEBBELS - Book burning
  • 4) MOLOTOV - The invasion of Russia
  • 5) CHURCHILL - Blood, tears, toil; Finest hour's The few
  • 6) F D Roosevelt - A day that will live in infamy
  • 7) DE GAULLE - Speech to World War I veterans
  • 8) HIROHITO - Surrender of Japan
  • 9) MACARTHUR - Terms of Japanese surrender; Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away
  • 10) GANDHI - I have faith in the righteosness of our cause
  • 11) JFK - Ask not what your country can do for you; Ich Bin ein Berliner
  • 12) MLK - I have a dream
  • 13) NIXON - Watergate first speech; There can be no whitewash at the White House
  • 14) REAGAN - Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall
  • 15) RUDD - We are truly sorry
  • 16) OBAMA - Yes we can