Pulitzer Prize History Winner
Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
by Herbert Feis
Summary
Feis reconstructs the 1945 Potsdam Conference where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill, soon replaced by Attlee, met to shape the post war world. He examines the decisions over Germany, Poland, and the coming use of the atomic bomb that hardened the lines of the emerging Cold War. The book draws on his diplomatic background to explain how wartime alliance gave way to rivalry.
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Historical Context & Significance
Herbert Feis, a former State Department economic adviser, won the Pulitzer Prize for History for this account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference in 1961.