Unit 1 Never Give In, Never, Never, Never综合教程四完整版.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Text II Memorable quotes 11 Churchill understandably exulted in the success of the D-day invasion when it came in 1944. By then it was the Russo-American rather than the Anglo-American nexus, however, that dominated the alliance, as he ruefully recognized at the last Big Three conference in February 1945. Shortly afterward he suffered the domestic humiliation of losing the general election and with it the premiership. He was to return to power in 1951 and remain until April 1955, when ill health and visibly failing powers caused him to resign. 12 It would have been kinder to his reputation had he not returned. He was not an effective peacetime Prime Minister. His name had been made, and he stood unchallengeable, as the greatest of all Britain’s war leaders. Text II Memorable quotes It was not only his own country, though, that owed him a debt. So too did the world of free men and women to whom he had made a constant and inclusive appeal in his magnificent speeches from embattled Britain in 1940 and 1941. Text II Memorable quotes About the text — It is an abridged version of the article with the same title from /time/time 100/leaders/profile/churchill.html. Text II Memorable quotes About the author — John Keegan, a historian, is the defense and military specialist for London’s Daily Telegraph. duke (Paragraph 1) — the title of a nobleman of the highest rank Text II Memorable quotes Louis XIV (Paragraph 1) — (1638 — 1715) son of Louis XIII, King of France from 1643 to 1715 Text II Memorable quotes Text II Memorable quotes War of Spanish Succession (Paragraph 1) — (1701 — 1714) a war caused by the efforts of King Louis XIV to extend French power. The direct cause of the war was that the poor health of the childless King Charles II left the issue of succession open to the cl