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Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian, journalist and the author of the widely acclaimed Blood and Iron. A visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is a columnist for the Washington Post and hosts the podcast The New Germany together with Oliver Moody. She was born in East Germany and is now based in the UK.<b>Forget everything you thought you knew about life in the GDR. This terrifically colourful, surprising and enjoyable history of the socialist state is full of surprises</b>
- Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times
<b>What makes this meticulous book essential reading is not so much its sense of what East Germans lost, as what we never had.</b> A history of the GDR that adds stability, contentment and women's rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism
- Stuart Jeffries, Guardian
Brilliant. . . Hoyer is a historian of immense ability. . .<b> Exhaustively researched, cleverly constructed and beautifully written, this much needed history of the GDR should be required reading across her homeland.</b> Five stars
- Saul David, Daily Telegraph
<b>A from-start-to-finish account of the East Germany where Hoyer was born, which means not just the Stasi but also day jobs, picnics and rock albums</b>. The result is a complete reconstruction of a country that stopped existing 23 years ago’
Prospect Magazine, Books of the Year 2023
<b>Absolutely fascinating</b>
- Andrew Marr, LBC
<b>A rich, counterintuitive history of a country all too often dismissed as a freak or accident of the cold war</b>
Observer
<b>Myth-busting, artfully constructed history</b>. . . Katja Hoyer displays a special understanding and wants to present a corrective to previous reductive assessments of the GDR that depict it as a field-grey Stasiland. . . Her command of detail, broad historical brush strokes and evident sympathy for her interview partners make for <b>a fascinating read</b>
- Roger Boyes, The Times
<b>Enthralling, fascinating and very readable. An extraordinary book. Five stars</b>
- Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
<b>A fast-paced, vivid and engaging book.</b> <i>Beyond the Wall</i> does much to combat amnesia and Cold War prejudice, and to normalize the GDR and the people who lived there
TLS
Having begun her life behind the wall, <b>Hoyer tells the story of the GDR with emotional intensity; but also with the detachment and balance of a professional historian who is determined to portray both the good and bad. </b>And a very interesting stroy it is, too
- Oliver Letwin, The Tablet