Be ye men of valour

	Be Ye Men of Valour The original radio broadcast from the British Broadcasting Company of the speech delivered by Winston Churchill during World War II.
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Be Ye Men of Valour was a wartime speech made in a BBC broadcast on 19 May 1940 by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill.

It was his first speech to the nation as Prime Minister, and came nine days after his appointment, in the second year of World War II.

The speech concludes with a quotation from the Apocrypha, which supplies the phrase by which the speech became known:

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be. (1 Maccabees 3:58–60)

Trivia

Samples of the speech are featured in Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation's song "Our Solemn Hour". The phrase a solemn hour is also included in the actual speech's beginning. An altered speech is used in the "Black Symphony" album where the Germans were replaced by the enemy. Samples of the speech are also featured in Jay Electronica's song "Call of Duty" featuring Mobb Deep. Another sample of the speech can also be heard on the track "Unnatural Selection" on the metal opera album 01011001 from Arjen Anthony Lucassen's project Ayreon.

External links

Churchill Society: Text of "Be Ye Men of Valour"

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Be ye men of valour

Winston Churchill

Life	Winston Churchill as historian Winston Churchill as writer Winston Churchill in politics: 1900–39 Military service World War II Timeline War Rooms conferences Percentages agreement Statement on Atrocities European Advisory Commission Honours of Winston Churchill Later life of Winston Churchill The Other Club Blenheim Palace Chartwell St Martin's Church, Bladon

Writings	The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) Savrola (1899 novel) The River War (1899) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900) Ian Hamilton's March (1900) Lord Randolph Churchill (1906) The World Crisis (1923-1931, five volumes) My Early Life (1930) Marlborough: His Life and Times (1933-1938, four volumes) Great Contemporaries (1937) Arms and the Covenant (1938) The Second World War (1948-1963, six volumes) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956-1958, four volumes)

Speeches	"Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" "Be ye men of valour" "We shall fight on the beaches" "This was their finest hour" "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" "Iron Curtain"

Legacy and depictions	Palace of Westminster statue Parliament Square statue Memorial Trusts Churchill Archives Centre The Churchill Centre U.S. Churchill Museum Cultural depictions

Related	Norway Debate Terminological inexactitude Tonypandy Riots Sword of Stalingrad Operation Unthinkable

Family	Lord Randolph Churchill (father) Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill (mother) John Strange Spencer-Churchill (brother) Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (wife) Diana Churchill (daughter) Randolph Churchill (son) Sarah Churchill (daughter) Marigold Churchill (daughter) Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (daughter) Descendants John Spencer-Churchill (grandfather) Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill (grandmother) Leonard Jerome (grandfather)

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