Katja Hoyer

About The Author

Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian specializing in modern German history. She was born in East Germany and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and has written for History Today and the BBC's History Extra. Katja now lives in Sussex, England.

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Books by Katja Hoyer

Blood and Iron

The Rise and Fall of the German Empire

By Katja Hoyer

In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War.

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