Philipp Blom is a German historian, novelist, journalist and translator. After obtaining his PhD in Modern History at Oxford University, he moved onto a number of diverse roles and has worked as a journalist, editor and writer, contributing to newspapers, magazines and radio programmes throughout Europe and the US. Blom’s publications have been awarded with several international prizes and his most recent books include A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment (2012), The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914 (2010) and Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 (2015).
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