Career
His second novel,, is about the ruthless world of chocolate marketing, and describes the hostile relationship between a chocolate company executive and a journalist who spend a weekend locked in a chocolate factory together. Lowe has published two critically acclaimed history books about the Second World War and its aftermath. Inferno (2007) described the firebombing of Hamburg by the British and American air forces in 1943, which destroyed most of the city and resulted in approximately 40,000 civilian deaths.
lieutenant was reviewed extensively in the British press
His next book, Savage Continent (2012), is a history of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, which covers the lawlessness, chaos and unconstrained violence that gripped the continent in the years 1944 to 1949. lieutenant argues that the war did not end neatly at all, but in fact continued in various guises for several years after the official ceasefire in May 1945.
lieutenant covers a variety of controversial issues such as postwar vengeance, ethnic cleansing, and the many civil wars which took place across Europe. Lowe grew up in Hampstead in London, and studied English Literature at the University of Manchester.
After twelve years as a history editor at Cassell he left his job in 2010 to become a full-time writer
His books have been translated into German, Swedish, Japanese, Serbian, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Greek, Portuguese, Estonian, Norwegian, Russian, Slovene and Czechoslovakian. 2013 Hessell-Tiltman Prize, Savage Continent.