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

Career

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'' called ''Travellers in the Third Reich'' "riveting". It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. ''

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'' called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time". ''

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'' called ''A Village in the Third Reich'' , authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life", and ''

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'', "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction". ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust".

Personal life

She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of

Churchill College, Cambridge Churchill College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It has a primary focus on science, engineering and technology, but retains a strong interest in the arts ...

. She lives in London.

Works

*''The Story of Furniture'', Hamlyn, 1975 *''

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: 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

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