The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War In 1914 Paperback - 2014
by Clark, Christopher
- Used
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- Title The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War In 1914
- Author Clark, Christopher
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 736
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2014-03-18
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4621012-6
- ISBN 9780061146664 / 0061146668
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 1.4 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1914-1918 - Causes, Europe - Politics and government - 1871-1918
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.311
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From the rear cover
On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station, Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at war. The conflict that resulted would kill more than fifteen million people, destroy three empires, and permanently alter world history.
The Sleepwalkers reveals in gripping detail how the crisis leading to World War I unfolded. Drawing on fresh sources, it traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts among the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade. Distinguished historian Christopher Clark 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.
How did the Balkans--a peripheral region far from Europe's centers of power and wealth--come to be the center of a drama of such magnitude? How had European nations organized themselves into opposing alliances, and how did these nations manage to carry out foreign policy as a result? Clark reveals a Europe racked by chronic problems--a fractured world of instability and militancy that was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. These rulers, who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism, stumbled through crisis after crisis and finally convinced themselves that war was the only answer.
Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Sleepwalkers is a magisterial account of one of the most compelling dramas of modern times.
