Potsdam Summary

Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe is a well-written nonfiction by author and historian Michael Neiberg. He is currently a professor of history in the department of National Security at the U.S. Army War College. He is a very intelligent man, who has published many books all related to theme of war. Neiberg also has a background at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the University of Southern Mississippi. As I stated before all his books are related to the theme of war, mainly between the two World Wars. He has a strong acknowledgment over all areas of history, being social, military, french and American history. His previous work was also a book on the First World War is Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of …show more content…
Michael doesn’t just spend his time writing books on war, he is also a husband, and father of two. He mentions in his biography that he is a big fan of all Pittsburgh teams, which is quite unusual considering the fact that all his books are war related and make no mention of sports. Anyways, now going back to Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe, the theme of this book revolves around the Potsdam negotiators, who leave the ideas of Versailles in the past. Given Michael’s knowledge of history, and his narrative views it’s hard to indicate the overall argument, because one argument contributes to another. All eleven chapters mention the struggles and arguments between these three men: Stalin, Churchill, and Truman also often referred to as “The Big …show more content…
Neiberg demonstrates the conflicts between these leaders, and their interests in Potsdam. I really enjoyed reading this book, as I mentioned before, it’s very well-written and obvious that Mr. Neiberg knows his history. There’s no doubt that I actually highly recommend Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. Michael Neiberg is surprisingly one of those authors with a gift, where one can help us visualize the events. Winston Churchill, prime minister who was soon replaced, still played a huge role in this book. Truman was an officer from the United States, while Stalin was more superior and was part of the Soviet Resolution. Neiberg settled the Potsdam Agreement between these men, who came from different nations. It eventually all soon came to an end, problems that were caused by the Versailles treaty were solved. It came to my attention that the Versailles wasn’t the main argument between these three, it was literally these three men who brought more complications within each other. These three men or as Neiberg describes them “The Big Three”, met just after Hitler’s death, out of Berlin. Nevertheless, this wasn’t what Neiberg was trying to prove here, his main purpose here was how these men associated with each other to end all the complications that started a big conflict. These men from Potsdam, accomplished to put an end to the war