{"product_id":"9780141027821-sleepwalkers-the","title":"The Sleepwalkers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Europe Went to War in 1914\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT \u003c\/i\u003eBOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eHistory Book Prize 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalkers\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Formidable . one of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published' \u003cb\u003eMax Hastings, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Easily the best book ever written on the subject . A work of rare beauty that combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis and elegant prose. The enormous weight of its quality inspires amazement and awe . Academics should take note: Good history can still be a good story' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations' \u003cb\u003eNiall Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among themselves without reason . [Clark] demolishes the standard view . The brilliance of Clark's far-reaching history is that we are able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue . In conception, steely scholarship and piercing insights, his book is a masterpiece' \u003cb\u003eHarold Evans, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Impeccably researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written . a model of scholarship' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb . effectively consigns the old historical consensus to the bin . It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A monumental new volume . Revelatory, even revolutionary . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Superb . One of the great mysteries of history is how Europe's great powers could have stumbled into World War I . This is the single best book I have read on this important topic' \u003cb\u003eFareed Zakaria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A meticulously researched, superbly organized, and handsomely written account' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMilitary History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Clark is a masterly historian . His account vividly reconstructs key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them . A magisterial work' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This compelling examination of the causes of World War I deserves to become the new standard one-volume account of that contentious subject' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliant contribution' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject . He provides vivid portraits of leading figures . [He] also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In recent decades, many analysts had tended to put most blame for the disaster [of the First World War] on Germany. Clark strongly renews an older interpretation which sees the statesmen of many countries as blundering blindly together into war' \u003cb\u003eStephen Howe, \u003ci\u003eIndependent Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Conversion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKaiser Wilhelm\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eII\u003c\/i\u003e and Iron \u003ci\u003eKingdom\u003c\/i\u003e. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943016902753,"sku":"9780141027821","price":17.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32397496.jpg?v=1737224671","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141027821-sleepwalkers-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}