Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: Tough-o-Meter

    Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: Tough-o-Meter

      (4) Base Camp

      The "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" speech is short and sweet. Well, maybe not so sweet, but it's short, at least.

      Churchill is a brilliant man speaking to other highly educated men, so he uses some fancy syntax when something simpler would have worked. But the biggest difficulty will be understanding the political context, like how Parliament works and how the British government is formed. Churchill didn't need to provide that info given who his audience was (Parliament), but the reader needs to understand it to really grok the first half of the speech.