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David Reynolds, (born 17 February 1952) is a British historian. He is Emeritus Professor of International History at
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and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He attended school at
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on a scholarship and studied at
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and Harvard Universities. He has held visiting posts at Harvard,
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and Oklahoma, as well as at
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in Tokyo and Sciences Po in Paris. Reynolds was awarded the
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, 2005, and elected a Fellow of the
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in 2005. His research and writing specialise in the two
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s and the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge in 2013-15 and retired from University teaching in 2019. He has served on academic advisory boards for the redevelopment of the Imperial War Museum First World War Galleries (2011-14) and Second World War Galleries (since 2016). In 2021, he succeeded Roger Knight as President of
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Documentaries

Reynolds has made thirteen documentaries on 20th-century history for the
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, most recently the three-part BBC2 series '' Long Shadow'', based on his award-winning book about the legacies and memory of 1914–18 and a trilogy of films about the Big Three allies in the
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: '' World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel'', ''World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly'' and ''World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President''. All these films have been directed by Russell Barnes. Reynolds was also the writer and presenter of the award-winning ninety-part series '' America, Empire of Liberty'', broadcast on BBC Radio 4.


Personal life

Reynolds is married with one son.


Awards and honours

*2004
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, ''In Command of History'' *2005 Fellow of the
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*2014
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, ''The Long Shadow''


Books

*1981: ''The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937–1941: a Study in Competitive Co-operation'' (1981) University of North Carolina Press (Awarded the Bernath Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1982) *1988: ''An Ocean Apart: the Relationship between Britain and America in the 20th Century'' – co-author
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. Hodder & Stoughton (Linked to BBC/PBS TV series.) *1991: ''Britannia Over-ruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century''. Longman *1994: ''Allies at War: the Soviet, American and British Experience 1939–1945'' (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History). (Co-edited with Warren F. Kimball and A. O. Chubarian). Palgrave Macmillan *1994: ''The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives'' (editor). Yale University Press *1995: ''Rich Relations: the American Occupation of Britain, 1942–1945''. Random House (Awarded the US Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award, 1996) *2000: ''One World Divisible: a Global History since 1945''.. Allen Lane *2001: ''From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War''. Ivan R. Dee *2004: ''In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War''. Random House (Awarded the
Wolfson History Prize The Wolfson History Prizes are literary awards given annually in the United Kingdom to promote and encourage standards of excellence in the writing of history for the general public. Prizes are given annually for two or three exceptional works ...
, 2004) *2005: '' Christ's: a Cambridge College Over Five Centuries'' (editor). Macmillan *2006: ''From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s''. Oxford University Press *2007: ''Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century''. Allen Lane *2008: ''FDR's World: War, Peace, and Legacies''. (Co-edited with David B. Woolner and Warren F. Kimball) Palgrave Macmillan *2009: ''America, Empire of Liberty: A New History''. David Reynolds *2013: ''The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century''. Simon & Schuster UK ; W. W. Norton, 2014 US (Awarded the
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, 2014) *2016: ''Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990''. (Co-edited with Kristina Spohr) Oxford University Press *2018: ''The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt,'' with Vladimir Pechatnov. Yale University Press (Awarded the Link-Kuehl Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2020) *2019: ''Island Stories: Britain and its History in the Age of Brexit'' Harper Collins


Broadcasting (as writer and presenter)

*2004: ''Churchill's Forgotten Years'' – BBC 4/BBC 2 *2004: ''The Improbable Mr Attlee'' – BBC 4 *2008: ''Summits'' – three-part series: (1) Munich, 1938; (2) Vienna, 1961; (3) Geneva, 1985 – BBC 4 *2008: ''Armistice'' – BBC2 (Grierson Award: Best Historical Documentary, runner-up) *2008–09: ''America, Empire of Liberty'' –
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(90-part series, accompanying the writer's 2009 book)America, Empire of Liberty
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'' – the author talks about the radio series. ( Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme of 2008; Sony Radio Academy Award, Nomination, 2009; Orwell Prize, Shortlist, 2010) *2010: ''
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in the Den'' – BBC 4 *2011: '' World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel'' – BBC 4 (Grierson Award: Best Historical Documentary, Nomination) *2012: ''World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly'' – BBC 4 *2014: ''The Long Shadow'' – three-part series: (1) Remembering and Understanding; (2) Ballots and Bullets; (3) Us and Them – BBC 2 *2015: ''World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President'' – BBC 4 *2016: ''Verdun: The Sacred Wound''
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(2-part series: (1) The Battle; (2) Loss and Legacy) *2017: ''Balfour's Promised Land''
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- on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration


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Professor David Reynolds
- Fellows of the
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