Background

Michael Neiberg was born on August 2, 1969, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the United States, to Laurence (a teacher) and Phyllis Neiberg.

Education

Neiberg attended the University of Michigan and received a bachelor's degree in 1991. He also attended Carnegie Mellon, where he received a master's degree in 1992, and a Ph.D. in 1996.

Career

Neiberg is the inaugural Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. His published work specializes in the First and Second World Wars, notably the American and French experiences. In October 2012 Basic Books published his The Blood of Free Men, a history of the liberation of Paris in 1944. In May 2015 Basic published his Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. In October, Oxford University Press published his Path to War, a history of American responses to the Great War, 1914-1917.

Achievements

• Michael Scott Neiberg has been listed as a noteworthy history professor by Marquis Who's Who. 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.

Works

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  • The Military Atlas of World War I

    (World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of th...)

    2014
  • Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

    (The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I de...)

    2011
  • Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service

    (This book examines the Reserve Officers Training Corps pr...)

    2000
  • The Second Battle of the Marne

    (The First Battle of the Marne produced the so-called Mira...)

    2008
  • Warfare and Society in Europe: 1898 to the Present

    (Warfare and Society in Europe, 1898 to the Present examin...)

    2004
  • The Western Front, 1914-1916

    (The Western Front, running from the Belgian coast in the ...)

    2008
  • The World War I Reader

    (Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signe...)

    2007
  • The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction

    (Signed on June 28, 1919, between Germany and the principa...)

    2019
  • Fascism

    (This volume presents the best writings on the origins, de...)

    2006
  • The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America

    (When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed...)

    2016
  • Warfare in World History

    (Despite their catastrophic effects, wars have proved to b...)

    2005
  • The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944

    (As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of...)

    2012
  • Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War

    (Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century ...)

    2003
  • Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe

    (After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tat...)

    2015
  • Fighting the Great War: A Global History

    (Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European g...)

    2006

Connections

Neiberg married his girlfriend Barbara on December 17, 1994.

Father:

Laurence Neiberg

Mother:

Phyllis Neiberg

Spouse:

Barbara Neiberg

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 189
  2001