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Julia Boyd (born 1948) is a British non-fiction author. Career The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting". It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time". The Times called A Village in the Third Reich , authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life", and The Scotsman, "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. She lives in London. 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 . Discover the Julia Boyd popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Julia Boyd books.
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Olive Cotton
Helen EnnisA landmark biography of a singular and important Australian photographer, Olive Cotton, by an awardwinning writer beautifully written and deeply moving.Winner 2022 Adelaide Festiv...
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Trio
William BoydIt’s summer 1968, and the world is reeling from war and assassinations, protests and riots. In a sunny British seaside town, a producer, a novelist, and an actress are enduring the...
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Appassionata
Jilly Cooper OBEThe most fun you can have under a Tenor...Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and t...
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Executive Action
Richard DoyleJack Meade wakes in a hospital bed. The doctors tell him he has been in the sea for two days that he is lucky to be alive. His face is so salt ravaged he barely recognises himself...
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Empire
Jeremy PaxmanFrom the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama a...
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Darkness Falling
Peter Walther'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best – and a fabulous ...
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The Complete Dangerous Davies
Leslie ThomasAs plainclothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a nonstarter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of northwest London are his daily round. H...
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Down South
Chris ParryDown South by Chris Parry one man's astonishing diary of war in the Falklands'A gripping account of heroism and chaos in the South Atlantic' Mail on Sunday'Compelling, gripping...
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The Private Life Of Islam
Dr Ian YoungIan Young spent a summer as a medical student in a provincial maternity unit in Algeria. This book is taken from the diary he began on arrival, when he found himself the privilege...
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Rosaline
Natasha Solomons»Eine grandiose Neuerzählung der Geschichte von Romeo und Julia« William BoydAls Romeo Montague die junge Rosaline Capulet zum ersten Mal sieht, ist er sofort verliebt. Die freihei...
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The Book of Pet Love and Loss
Sara BaderA powerful collection of quotations by writers, leaders, and legends on the pain of losing a pet and overcoming grief.An animal’s love is deep, uncomplicated, unconditional, and fo...
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Voyage en Allemagne sous le IIIe Reich
Julia Boyd & Danielle LafargeLes événements qui se sont déroulés en Allemagne entre 1919 et 1945 ont été dramatiques et terribles, mais il y a eu aussi des moments de confusion, de doute et d'espoir.Pour les c...
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Borderlines
Lewis Baston'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT'Extraordinarily perceptive and original' ANTHONY SELDON'Refreshing and important' RAFAEL BEHR'A lightfooted jo...
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Rural Rides
William CobbettTravelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of h...