Michael S. Neiberg, a history professor and Chair of War Studies at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, goes inside the conference in a discussion of his book Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. It won the Truman Library Institute’s 2016 Harry S. Truman Book Award. Three months into his presidency in July 1945, Harry S. Truman met with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate the end of World War II and Europe’s reconstruction. Churchill was replaced after an election loss back home, tilting the power dynamic in favor of the seasoned Stalin. The outcome, notably the division of Germany and Soviet annexation of Poland, would reflect the uneasy equilibrium between East and West that dominated the 20th century. Michael S. Neiberg, a history professor and Chair of War Studies at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, goes inside the conference in a discussion of his book Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. It won the Truman Library Institute’s 2016 Harry S. Truman Book Award. Co-presented by the Truman Library Institute.