Winston Churchill gave the speech called “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” on the 4th of June in 1940. It is  one of the most inspirational and moving speeches delivered during the time of The Battle of France by a lieutenant colonel of Britain’s army named Winston Churchill. The speech is directed to the Parliament to up date them about how the war is proceeding in all aspects of the Britain’s army. Its intention was keeping the House of Commons up to date about the war and how the German army had pushed them back. The analysis of the speech will inform the audience about the person who wrote the speech and what the speech meant to the people at that time, it will also look at how the speech could be useful to historians.

The speech was given to the House of Commons. Winston Churchill was elected for his military experience because of his prediction of the Germans to advance. The audience would be the members of the house of commons since it was given there instead of a public place for the public to hear. The speech also has more of a management aspect rather than an emotional aspect which is usually used by leaders to get to their people. 

The speech was talking about Germany and winning the fight against them. This is proven in reference to what Churchill says “I know there are a great many people affected by the orders which we have made who are the passionate enemies of Nazi Germany” and how he refers to the Germans as his enemies. The speech would’ve been more effective if it was given to the people since they are the ones who need to be motivated to fight for their country, not the parliament. 

When Churchill says “We shall fight them on the beaches.” a very famous line and one that isn’t forgotten in his speech means that the people of England should prepare to fight for their country and to start is war against Germany.

The must unforgettable part of Churchill’s speech, “We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender” Winston Churchill uses repetition in order to get his people inspired and build up their will to fight against the Germans if there was ever an attack. 

The speech is very biased in many ways as it only talks about the perspective of the British not taking into consideration any other arguments that other countries may have. The problem with that is that historians only get to hear statistics given to them by the leaders through this speech. The speech is very informative to knowing what the strategy for the Britain’s was at that time. Churchill also uses many metaphors in this speech such as enemy aliens, referring to Germans as aliens and not normal. This is so the house of commons is more influenced in thinking the Germans are inhuman people.


In conclusion, this speech was purely intended to be an inspirational speech. The speech was the second in the three major speeches delivered at that time and the speech. And overall a huge motivation for the people of England to fight and defend their country.

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