Julia Boyd

The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting".{{cite news |last1=Dirda |first1=Michael |title=Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/nazi-germany-as-a-travel-destination-a-new-book-explores-how-hitler-duped-tourists/2018/08/28/d3265ca2-a63a-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html |access-date=15 December 2022 |work=The Washington Post |date=29 August 2018}} It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.{{Cite web|url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3474|title=Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, April 16, 2019|first=Tom|last=Phillips|website=www.shelf-awareness.com |access-date=15 December 2022}} Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time".{{Cite web |date=2018-06-25 |title=Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945 by Julia Boyd |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781681777825 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Publishers Weekly}}

The Times called A Village in the Third Reich , authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life",{{cite news |last1=Hoyer |first1=Katja |title=A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd review — how a Bavarian community experienced the rise and fall of Hitler |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/a-village-in-the-third-reich-by-julia-boyd-angelika-patel-review-6hgw98jdj |access-date=15 December 2022 |work=The Times |date=16 April 2022}} and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction".{{cite news |last1=Mackay |first1=Neil |title=Books: When evil lurked in kind hearts |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/20598594.books-evil-lurked-kind-hearts/ |access-date=15 December 2022 |work=The Scotsman |date=6 August 2022}} Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust".{{Cite web |date=2023-02-08 |title=A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism by Julia Boyd, Angelika Patel |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781639363780 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Publishers Weekly}}

She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.{{cite web |title=Julia Boyd Biography |url=http://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/authors/julia-boyd |website=Andrew Lownie Literary Agency |access-date=15 December 2022}} She lives in London.{{cite web |title=Book talk: Julia Boyd: A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism |url=https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/book-talk-julia-boyd-a-village-in-the-third-reich-how-ordinary-lives-were-transformed-by-the-rise-of-fascism/ |website=The Wiener Holocaust Library |access-date=15 December 2022}}

• 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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