Katja Hoyer
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Katja Hoyer

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Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of the international bestsellers Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 and Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire. Beyond the Wall was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Her latest book is Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe. Katja is a columnist for Berliner Zeitung and a regular contributor to British and American news outlets such as the BBC, Bloomberg, The Telegraph and The Guardian. She co-hosts the German history podcast Reichs & Republics and publishes a biweekly Substack newsletter called ZEITGEIST.
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    • The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
    • Written by: Katja Hoyer
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2021-12-07
    • Language: English
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