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Charles L. Mee

Author of Meeting at Potsdam

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Works by Charles L. Mee

Meeting at Potsdam (1975) 276 copies
The Genius of the People (1987) 132 copies
History Plays (PAJ Books) (1998) 27 copies
White robe, black robe (1972) 25 copies
Noah (1978) — Author — 19 copies
Seizure (1978) 12 copies
Life in the Renaissance (2016) 8 copies
The Black Death (2012) 8 copies
Big Love (2000) 8 copies
Rembrandt: A Life (2013) 6 copies
"Horizon" Bedside Reader (1970) 5 copies
True Love 2 copies
TDR #175 (2002) 2 copies
TDR #20 1 copy
Trojan Women 1 copy

Associated Works

Horizon Magazine Volume 17 Number 01 1975 Winter (1968) — Introduction — 25 copies
New American Plays: Volume 1 (1965) — Contributor — 23 copies

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recommended by AP Government teachers
 
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pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 |
The untold story of the Marshall Plan
 
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jhawn | Jul 31, 2017 |
Well written chronicle on the making of the Treaty of Versailles.
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Waltersgn | Mar 12, 2017 |
In the summer of 1945, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin met a few miles from the war-shattered seat of Nazi power -- in the Cecilienhof Palace at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin.

Unlike the previous "Big Three" Conferences conducted during the War -- at Teheran in 1943, and Yalta in 1945 -- the universe of potential conflicts between the "allies" was now intensified. Harmony ended at Potsdam, along with the hope for world peace.

The author concludes that each delegation perceived that they could respectively better expand their power in a world of discord than of tranquility. This book shows how each delegation managed to "rescue discord from the threatened outbreak of peace."

But only one of the three leaders indulged in outright cool and deliberate dissembly. And he did so with a breath-taking indifference and denial of human suffering, economic facts, and political reality.

The author begins with a detailed description of the three leaders. Drawing from diaries, leading historians, and political records, the impression I have is that he was very fair in his assessments. In turning to the events, he recites the facts--providing the dramatic details -- Potsdam took place just before the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan. "Trinity" was tested at Alamogordo, July 16. Should the Americans tell Churchill? Stalin?

The actual text of the Potsdam Proclamation and the more detailed Declaration are included.
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