The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Clark presents a novel perspective on World War I, concentrating not on the battlefields and tragedies of the war, but on the complicated circumstances and relationships that drove a group of well-meaning leaders into deadly warfare.
Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centres in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914, as well as the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that accelerated the crisis in a matter of weeks.
Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative narrative of Europe's decline into a war that tore the globe apart, meticulously researched and wonderfully written.
