Michael Scott Neiberg (born August 2, 1969) is an American historian who specializes in 20th-century military history, with a focus on France and, more broadly, Western Europe during the 1914–1945 era.
Career
Michael Neiberg was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Laurence Neiberg, a teacher, and his wife Phyllis Dee (Saroff) Neiberg. He serves as the inaugural Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Selected works
Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN0674543122OCLC42289811
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN9780674049543OCLC676725362
Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2015. ISBN9780465075256OCLC891609325
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America. Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN9780190464967OCLC941875030
The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford [UK]; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN9780190644987OCLC1047524628
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. ISBN978-0674258563OCLC1269427614