The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
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| Title | The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 |
| Author | Christopher Clark |
| Year of Publication | September 27, 2012 |
| Language | English |
| File Format | PDF/ePub |
| Number of Pages | 682 |
Book Description
The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?
In The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes. Above all, it shows how the failure to understand the seriousness of the chaotic, near genocidal fighting in the Balkans would drag Europe into catastrophe.
