Julia De Beausobre

A powerful description of the author's experience in the prison and camp system of the Soviet Union and the various psychological and spiritual states she encounters. It provides the background story to her powerful little book 'Creative Suffering'.

One of the most significant and powerful books I have ever read despite its short length.

Lewis Namier was the master of Micro-History, doing such things as creating a biography of every member of Parliament sitting in the House in Westminster in the 1760,s. He worked on a theory that elites dictate policy, and if you can identify them it will speed analysis. This is a careful biography by his wife.