War’s thunder trailed off into a tinkling minuet. The dust of Sidi Barrani, Stalingrad and Aachen had dissolved; and there, as in a dream, were the clipped green lawns of Sanssouci. There was a ...

In his book, he chronicles the 1945 meeting of Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in Potsdam ... the mistakes of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and how the negotiations to ...

Convened to decide the fate of postwar Europe, The Potsdam Conference got off with a bang ... In a quiet moment, Truman told Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin about a U.S. weapon of “unusual ...

“I can deal with Stalin. He is honest — but smart as hell,” the 33rd president of the United States wrote in a diary entry dated July 17, 1945, the first day of the Potsdam Conference in German ...

Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin -- all met up in a quiet Berlin suburb: The aim of the Potsdam Conference was to negotiate a lasting global peace to a conflict that had essentially begun in 1914.

Truman and Joseph Stalin in the garden at Cecilienhof during the 1945 conference.Credit...U. S. Army Signal Corps, via Harry S. Truman Library The show, “Potsdam Conference 1945: Shaping the ...

Truman, who had been in office since April 12, met for the first time with Soviet leader Josef Stalin. They conferred — two months after the defeat of Nazi Germany — at the Potsdam Conference ...

The following excerpt from Beschloss’ book portrays an increasingly self-confident Truman sparring with Stalin and Churchill at Potsdam, site of the 17-day conference held in July and August to ...

Here, Stalin is pictured shaking hands with Harry Truman and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 to negotiate the end of World War II in Potsdam, Germany. After suffering a stroke ...

On Aug. 2, 1945, leaders of the U.S., the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union concluded a historic meeting in Potsdam, Germany, a series of events that would forever change the world in the ...