Keith Lowe is the author of several major works of history. He is best known for his book Savage Continent, which became an international bestseller, and went on to win both the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and Italy’s national Cherasco History Prize. It is now a standard work on the wave of violence and revenge that swept Europe after the Second World War.

His 2017 book about the long-term, global effects of the war, The Fear and the Freedom, was described by the Wall Street Journal  as “one of the best, most useful books on World War II to have emerged in the past decade”. It was shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Non-fiction Crown, and has been adapted as a 12-part radio series in the Czech Republic.

Keith has also written critically-acclaimed books on WWII monuments, and the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. His latest work, Naples 1944, describes the liberation of Italy, and the political and economic chaos that followed.

He regularly speaks on TV and radio, and has lectured at universities, conferences and literary festivals all over the world. He has written for a variety of newspapers and journals, including the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Wall Street Journal, El Paìs and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 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.