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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: DISTANT ECHOES
Moses: Instructing His People to March without Him (circa 1260 BCE)
Pericles: Reply to Sparta (432 BCE)
Pericles: At the Funeral of Fallen Soldiers (431 BCE)
Pericles: Lifting the Morale of Athens (430 BCE)
Isocrates: On Resisting Persia (380 BCE)
Hannibal: To His Soldiers (218 BCE)
Catiline: To His Troops (62 BCE)
Eleazar ben Yair: Death, Not Slavery (May 73)
Empress Theodora: Fight, Not Flight (January 18, 532)
St. Bernard: On the Second Crusade (1146)
William Shakespeare: Battle of Agincourt (1599)
Queen Elizabeth I: Supporting Her Troops against the Spanish Armada (July 1588)
Frederick the Great: Before Invading Silesia (December 11, 1740)
Frederick the Great: Before the Battle of Leuthen (December 3, 1757)
PART 2: LIBERTY OR DEATH
John Hancock: On the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1774)
Patrick Henry: Liberty or Death (March 23, 1775)
George Washington: Calming His Rebellious Troops (March 15, 1783)
Napoléon Bonaparte: Speeches of 1796–1815
Before the Italian Campaign (March 1796)
Proclamation to the Army (May 1796)
On Entering Milan (May 1796)
At the Conclusion of the First Italian Campaign (March 1797)
On the Signing of the Treaty of Campo Formio (October 17, 1797)
On Embarking for Egypt (June 1798)
Before the Battle of Marengo (June 14, 1800)
On Presenting the Colors (December 3, 1804)
Before the Battle of Austerlitz (December 1, 1805)
After the Battle of Austerlitz (December 3, 1805)
Before the Battle of Borodino (September 7, 1812)
Address to the Guard (April 2, 1814)
Farewell Address to the Old Guard (April 20, 1814)
On Returning from Exile (March 5, 1815)
Anniversary Proclamation on the Battles of Marengo and Friedland (June 14, 1815)
Giuseppe Garibaldi: Farewell Address: Fight On! (September 1860)
Frederick Douglass: Men of Color, To Arms! (March 21, 1863)
Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
Abraham Lincoln: To the 166th Ohio Regiment (August 22, 1864)
Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)
PART 3: SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY
Woodrow Wilson: To the U.S. Naval Academy (June 5, 1914)
Woodrow Wilson: War Message to Congress (April 2, 1917)
Georges Clemenceau: Defend to the Death (June 4, 1918)
Marshal Ferdinand Foch: Tribute to Napoléon (May 5, 1921)
Winston Churchill: Victory at All Costs (May 13, 1940)
Winston Churchill: We Shall Never Surrender (June 4, 1940)
Henry Stimson: Asking for Sacrifice (May 6, 1941)
Harold Ickes: Imploring Americans to Fight (May 18, 1941)
Vyacheslav Molotov: Responding to Germany’s Invasion (June 22, 1941)
Josef Stalin: Defend Every Inch (July 3, 1941)
Winston Churchill: We Can Take It Again (July 14, 1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 9/11 Address (September 11, 1941)
Winston Churchill: On Refusing to “Give In” (October 29, 1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Declaring War on Japan (December 8, 1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt: On Preparing America for War (December 9, 1941)
Josef Stalin: Demanding Courage (July 28, 1942)
General Sir Bernard Montgomery: No Retreat (August 13, 1942)
General George Patton: Exhorting the Third Army (Spring 1944)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower: Ordering the Normandy Invasion (June 6, 1944)
PART 4: BEAR ANY BURDEN
Harry S. Truman: Calling America to the Cold War (March 12, 1947)
Menachem Begin: Preparing Israel for an Arab Attack (May 14, 1948)
John F. Kennedy: What You Can Do for Your Country (January 20, 1961)
General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, Country (May 12, 1962)
John F. Kennedy: Challenging America to Reach the Moon (September 12, 1962)
John F. Kennedy: Bracing America for the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 22, 1962)
John F. Kennedy: Ich Bin ein Berliner (June 26, 1963)
Richard Nixon: Asking for Patience on Vietnam (November 3, 1969)
Nelson Mandela: Unite! Mobilize! Fight On! (June 10, 1980)
Ronald Reagan: Tear Down This Wall! (June 12, 1987)
PART 5: 9/11 AND BEYOND
George W. Bush: Rallying America after 9/11 (September 20, 2001)
Notes on Sources
Illustration Credits
Index
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