Julia Boyd Explained

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]

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.

Notes and References

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