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Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People (Julia Boyd)

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Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism Through the Eyes of Everyday People (Julia Boyd)Author: Julia Boyd Witness the rise of the Third Reich through the perspective of outsiders extraordinary tales from visitors and travellers drawn to the New Germany of the 1930s. The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt of hope even. Without the benefit of hindsight, how did people interpret what was unfolding in front of their eyes? How easy was it to

Author: Julia Boyd

Witness the rise of the Third Reich through the perspective of outsiders – extraordinary tales from visitors and travellers drawn to the ‘New Germany’ of the 1930s.

The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt – of hope even. Without the benefit of hindsight, how did people interpret what was unfolding in front of their eyes? How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by Nazi propaganda or predict the Holocaust?

Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts of outsiders drawn to the country, a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler – one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.

These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes and its ultimate destruction.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLER AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History 2018
One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017
A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017
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‘A compelling historical narrative’ Daily Telegraph
‘Fascinating’ Spectator
‘Absorbing and stimulating’ Mail on Sunday

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About the Author

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.
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