We shall not flag or fail

Place Europe: United Kingdom
Accession Number ARTV02251
Collection type Art
Measurement Sheet: 76 x 51 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description offset lithograph on paper
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom
Date made 1940-1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

This text-only British Second World War poster quotes a speech given by British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to the House of Commons on 4 June 1940. This speech was the second of three that Churchill gave during the Battle of France. The section of the speech quoted in this poster is the most well-known section, wherein Churchill discusses the means with which every Briton will fight to the bitter end, and should part of the country become 'subjugated and starving', then the vast British Empire would come to their aid.

This poster would have been displayed to remind Britons, or indeed other members of the British Empire of the unity and resign that the people of Britain had to defeat the Axis powers.

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