Katja Hoyer

'A fresh and gripping account of the interwar years seen through the lens of Germany’s most legendary town. Brilliantly researched, this is history at its very best' — Julia Boyd 'Britain's favourite German historian' — Sunday Times From bestselling historian Katja Hoyer comes a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler through the eyes of the...

The definitive new history of East Germany by a highly acclaimed historian. In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come...

The enthralling story of the German Empire, from its violent rise to its spectacular fall. Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? Could the young European nation build enough power to rival...