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. ^ a b "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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