t 14.54pm on Monday, May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons and delivered his first address as Prime Minister.
In his remarks, which took less than six minutes to deliver, he famously spoke of his policy to wage war 'by sea, land and air', with the single aim of victory, 'victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be."
Churchill normally prepared extremely thoroughly for his speeches according to Allen Packwood, a world authority on Churchill, director of the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University, and author of the new book 'How Churchill Waged War'.
