Reynolds was awarded the
Wolfson History Prize, 2005, and elected a Fellow of the
British Academy in 2005. His research and writing specialise in the two
world wars 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).[3] In 2021, he succeeded
Roger Knight as President of
Cambridge University Cricket Club.
Documentaries
Reynolds has made thirteen documentaries on 20th-century history for the
BBC, 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
Second World War: 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.[4]
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 and three grandchildren.[5]
1981: The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937–1941: a Study in Competitive Co-operation (1981) University of North Carolina Press
ISBN0-8078-1507-1 (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
David Dimbleby. Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN0-340-40666-6 (Linked to BBC/PBS TV series.)
1991: Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century. Longman
ISBN0-582-43725-3
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
ISBN0-312-10259-3
1994: The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives (editor). Yale University Press
ISBN0-300-05892-6
1995: Rich Relations: the American Occupation of Britain, 1942–1945. Random House
ISBN0-517-16871-5 (Awarded the US Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award, 1996)
2000: One World Divisible: a Global History since 1945.. Allen Lane
ISBN0-7139-9461-4
2001: From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War. Ivan R. Dee
ISBN1-56663-389-3
2004: In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War. Random House
ISBN0-679-45743-7 (Awarded the
Wolfson History Prize, 2004)
2016: Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990. (Co-edited with Kristina Spohr) Oxford University Press
ISBN978-0-19-872750-7
2018: The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, with
Vladimir Pechatnov. Yale University Press
ISBN978-0-300-22682-9 (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 HarperCollins
ISBN978-0-00-828231-8
2023: Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him HarperCollins
ISBN978-0-00-843991-0
2008: Armistice – BBC2 (Grierson Award: Best Historical Documentary, runner-up)
2008–09: America, Empire of Liberty –
BBC Radio 4 (90-part series, accompanying the writer's 2009 book)[7][8] (
Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme of 2008; Sony Radio Academy Award, Nomination, 2009; Orwell Prize, Shortlist, 2010)