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America, Empire of Liberty by David Reynolds
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 17 ...Show more
In Command Of History : Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War by David Reynolds
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian. In 1948-54 he published six volumes of memoirs which secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of the conflict to this day. Using the drafts and correspondence for The Second World War, David Reynolds o ...Show more
In Command of History by David Reynolds
$75.00 NZD
Category: World History
Churchill fought the war twice over - as Prime Minister and again as its premier historian. In 1948-54 he published six volumes of memoirs which secured his reputation and shaped our understanding of the conflict. Using the drafts and correspondence for The Second World War, David Reynolds opens our eye ...Show more
Mirrors of Greatness - Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him by David Reynolds
$39.99 NZD
Category: History
'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age' ADAM ZAMOYSKIWinston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be 'great', to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his ...Show more
Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
$70.00 NZD
Category: World History
'It is not easy to see how matters could be worsened by a parley at the summit.' Winston Churchill coined the term in 1950 but the temptation of summitry has been around for centuries. In this incisive and readable book, David Reynolds takes us from the Babylonians right up to Blair and Bush. But the co ...Show more
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
$37.00 NZD
Category: No Category
In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big ...Show more
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