The Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 By Christopher Clark New York: HarperCollins, 2013. Christopher Clark's book on the origins of World War I has rightly already received much praise. His easy-to-read style makes this complex subject accessible to a broad audience. Even more so, his multi-angle approach does not seek to single ...

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, The American Historical Review, Volume 120, Issue 3, June 2015, ... Had the "sleepwalkers" not been in charge in 1914—"watchful but unseeing" (p. 562)—had they not been blind to what they were about to bring into the world, the tragedy might have been averted. But this is only one of the many contradictions at the heart of Clark's ...