British non-fiction author
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.
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