In Conversation with Keith Lowe

About the Author

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 best seller, 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. Lowe has written for a variety of newspapers and journal, including the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Wall Street Journal, El Pais and the NeueZurcherZeitung.

About the book: Naples 1944 and The Making of Post-War Italy

The Second World War destroyed countless cities in Europe and Asia. This is the story of the first major European city to be liberated by the Allies. The book describes not only what happened to Naples when the scourge of war lashed down upon it, but also, crucially, what happened next.

This is the first major history of wartime Naples to appear in the English language. It fills a glaring gap in the British and American historiography of the war and shares a hoard of new stories - some of them truly shocking - that have never yet been published in any language.