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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.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'An utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Boyd is an outstanding micro-historian.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eiNews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n___________\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHidden 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nYet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the author of the \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling \u003cem\u003eTravellers in the Third Reich\u003c\/em\u003e comes \u003cem\u003eA Village in the Third Reich:\u003c\/em\u003e an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. 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Boyd's book reminds us that even the most brutal regimes cannot extinguish all semblance of human feeling'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Masterly... [an] important and gripping book... [Boyd is] a leading historian of human responses in political extremis.'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oldie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Gripping... vividly depicted... [a] humane and richly detailed book'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Vivid, moving stories leave us asking \"What would I have done?\"'\u003c\/strong\u003e Professor David Reynolds, author of \u003cem\u003eIsland Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\"An absorbing, thoroughly recommended read\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFamily Tree\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Laying bare the tragedies, the compromises, the suffering and the disillusionment. Exemplary microhistory.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Roger Moorehouse, author of \u003cem\u003eFirst to Fight\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Compelling and evocative'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll About History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'The rise of Nazi Germany through the prism of one small village in Bavaria. [...] Astonishing'\u003c\/strong\u003e Jane Garvey on \u003cem\u003eFortunately... with Fi and Jane\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'incredibly engaging'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory of War\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'Intensely detailed, exhaustively researched and rendered in almost cinematographic detail, Julia Boyd's \u003cem\u003eA Village In The Third Reich\u003c\/em\u003e 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. 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