Julia Boyd is the author of Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People, the Sunday Times top three bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018. Her previous books include A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking's Foreign Colony, The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician and Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan. An experienced researcher, she has scoured archives all over the world to find original material for her books. As the wife of a former diplomat, she lived in Germany from 1977 to 1981. A former trustee of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, she now lives in London.
