[2] It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.
[3] Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time".
[4] The Times called A Village in the Third Reich , authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life",[5] and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction".
[6] Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust".
[7] She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.