Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. Her widely acclaimed debut book was Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918. Her second book. Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 is an international bestseller and has been translated into sixteen languages. Katja is a visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is a columnist for the Berliner Zeitung and writes about current affairs in Germany and Europe for newspapers in Britain and the United States. She is co-host of the podcast The New Germany.