author : Max Egremontfacebook : https://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryReaderMax Egremont was born in 1948 and studied modern history at Oxford University. He is the author of four novels and four biographies, including Siegfried Sassoon: A Life (FSG, 2005) and Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia (FSG, 2011). Egremont is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.