The Long Shadow – The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Reynolds, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393088634 ISBN 13: 9780393088632

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary year, read The Long Shadow. David Reynolds writes superbly and his analysis is compelling and original." -Anne Chisolm, Chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Committee, and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Review:

[World War I has] been analyzed before, but never with such depth of perception or range of understanding. Reynolds is able to speak with authority on economics and philosophy; literature and art; politics, diplomacy and memory. He is a historian of immense skill, utterly confident of his wisdom and deservedly so.--Gerard De Groot

[A] masterly look at what the war meant and how its meaning changed by decade.--David Shribman

This is a masterly study in every sense: by an historian at the top of his game, deploying wide-ranging research in important arguments, sustained alike with rich detail and with dry wit.--Peter Clarke

Reynolds demonstrates with authoritative acuity how malleable an object the history of 1914-18 has been.

Explores the political, cultural and social legacy of the First World War, and offers correctives to many popular delusions. Perspective is critical to a comprehension of history, and Reynolds has no peer in helping us to achieve this.--Max Hastings

Provocative.

Fascinating.--Andrew Roberts

Who better as remembrancer than David Reynolds, with his customary lucidity, his long view, his comparative perspective, his contemporary sensitivity, his scholarly sanity and his crisp humanity? ...This is the work of a master historian.--Alex Danchev

Transcends conventional histories about World War I ...The kind of book that challenges readers to think.--Ed Timms

Eloquent... This book's deepest message is about the inescapability of history, whether we choose to live in its shadow or to turn our backs on the warnings it offers to the present.--Christopher Clark

About the Author:

David Reynolds is a professor of international history at Cambridge University. He is the author of books including The Long Shadow and In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War, which won the Wolfson Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393088634
• ISBN 13: 9780393088632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 544