The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914Description by Christopher Clark Paperback 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

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