The Penguin Book Of Twentieth-Century Protest

After the success of his two Penguin collections, Historic Speeches and Twentieth-Century Speeches, Brian MacArthur has brought together in this anthology some of the most striking and effective examples of protest through the century. These include the gravest matters of war and conflict - Siegfried Sassoon's declaration during the First World War, Winston Churchill on the 'unmitigated defeat' of Munich, the first accusation of genocide at Nuremberg, Ho Chi Minh on his 'heroic people' - as well as fascinating if more personal cries of rage - Somerset Maugham on the 'new scum' represented by Jimmy Porter, Dennis Potter on the BBC, Robert Harris on the 'madness' of Margaret Thatcher. The result is an anthology that brilliantly charts the vivid and impassioned debates that surrounded the great themes and events of the twentieth century.