Julia Boyd

Julia Boyd (born 1948) is a British non-fiction author.[1]

Career

The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting".[2] It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.[3] Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time".[4]

The Times called A Village in the Third Reich , authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life",[5] and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction".[6] Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust".[7]

Personal life

She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.[8] She lives in London.[9][1]

Works
  • The Story of Furniture, Hamlyn, 1975
  • Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan, Tuttle, 1995
  • The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician, Sutton, 2005
  • A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony, I.B. Tauris, 2012
  • Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People, Pegasus, 2018
  • A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism, 2022. Cowritten with Angelika Patel.

References
  1. "Julia Boyd's schedule for LA Times Festival of Books 2019". LA Times Festival of Books. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  2. Dirda, Michael (29 August 2018). "Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. Phillips, Tom. "Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, April 16, 2019". www.shelf-awareness.com. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  4. "Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 by Julia Boyd". Publishers Weekly. 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  5. Hoyer, Katja (16 April 2022). "A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd review — how a Bavarian community experienced the rise and fall of Hitler". The Times. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  6. Mackay, Neil (6 August 2022). "Books: When evil lurked in kind hearts". The Scotsman. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  7. "A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel". Publishers Weekly. 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
  8. "Julia Boyd Biography". Andrew Lownie Literary Agency. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  9. "Book talk: Julia Boyd: A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism". The Wiener Holocaust Library. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
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