Keith Lowe is the bestselling author of several major works of history. His first book, Inferno, was a critically acclaimed study of the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. His second book, Savage Continent, became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, and went on to win both the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and Italy's national Cherasco History Prize. The Fear and the Freedom was shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-fiction Crown. He has also written books on WWII monuments, and the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. Lowe has written for a variety of newspapers and journals, including the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Wall Street Journal, El Paì s and the NeueZü rcherZeitung. He serves on the historical advisory board for Liberation Route Europe, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
