___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New
Statesman Book of the Year 2022 'Fascinating... You'll learn more
about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly
researched chronicle... than you will by reading a shelf of
wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.'Daily Mail 'An utterly
absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary
people in extraordinary circumstances.'The Times 'Boyd is an
outstanding micro-historian.'iNews ___________ Hidden deep in the
Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf - a
place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while
history was made elsewhere. Yet even this remote idyll could not
escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime. From the author of
the Sunday Times bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A
Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of
Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary
people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and
memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and
weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy and despair.
Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life -
foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers, Nazi officials,
veterans and party members; village councillors, mountaineers,
socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and
aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived - and those who didn't;
the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime;
and a blind boy whose life was judged 'not worth living'. This is a
tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams -
but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. These are
the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history. ___
'Exceptional... Boyd's book reminds us that even the most brutal
regimes cannot extinguish all semblance of human feeling'Mail on
Sunday 'Masterly... [an] important and gripping book... [Boyd is] a
leading historian of human responses in political extremis.'The
Oldie 'Gripping... vividly depicted... [a] humane and richly
detailed book' Spectator 'Vivid, moving stories leave us asking
"What would I have done?"' Professor David Reynolds, author of
Island Stories "An absorbing, thoroughly recommended read"Family
Tree magazine 'Laying bare the tragedies, the compromises, the
suffering and the disillusionment. Exemplary microhistory.' Roger
Moorehouse, author of First to Fight 'Compelling and evocative'All
About History 'The rise of Nazi Germany through the prism of one
small village in Bavaria. [...] Astonishing' Jane Garvey on
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane 'incredibly engaging'History of War
magazine 'Intensely detailed, exhaustively researched and rendered
in almost cinematographic detail, Julia Boyd's A Village In The
Third Reich is deeply evocative, redolent of those times and truly
revelatory. I learned so much. This is a book I will need to return
to again and again, to relearn, refresh and remember. A triumph.'
Damien Lewis, author of The Flame of Resistance
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