Books by Sarah Davies

The Year is 1139 and Richard is about to become the second abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Fountains in North Yorkshire.This story imagines how the real events of 1132 at St Mary's Abbey in York played out to cause Richard to defy his Benedictine masters, collect a band of equally disillusioned brothers and under the protection of Thurstan, archbishop of York found a new monastic house...

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world-both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin's thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions.