The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Contributor(s): Clark, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061146668 ISBN-13: 9780061146664 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - 21st Century - History | Military - World War I - History | World - General |
Dewey: 940.311 |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.3" W x 8" (1.20 lbs) 736 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe's descent into a war that tore the world apart. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Christopher: - Christopher Clark is a professor of modern European history and a fellow of St. Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, among other books. |