Michael Neiberg - Chalke History Festival

Michael Neiberg

Michael S. Neiberg is Professor of History and Chair of War Studies at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His published work specializes on the First and Second World Wars in global context. His Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe (Basic Books, 2015) won the Harry Truman Prize. The Wall Street Journal named his Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I (Harvard University Press, 2011) one of the five best books ever written about that war. His latest book is When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Relationship (Harvard University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Society for Military History Book Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel from La Renaissance Française, an organization founded by French President Raymond Poincaré in 1915 to keep French culture alive during the First World War.

SPEAKER EVENTS

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10:15 - 11:15 •
Sun, 29 June

Moot

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142. Darkness in the City of Light: The 1937 Paris World’s Fair

Michael Neiberg
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10:00 - 13:00 •
Thu, 26 June

Guildhall

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53. Second World War Morning: War In The Far East

James Holland, Phil Craig,...
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16:45 - 17:45 •
Tue, 24 June

Guildhall

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13. There And Back: Diaries 1999-2009

Michael Palin, Michael Neiberg