Sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914 / Christopher Clark.

Collection type Library
Author Clark, Christopher M., author.;
Call Number 940.311 C592s
Document type Monograph
Year 2013.
Pagination xxix, 696 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
Publisher Penguin Books,
Note Originally published: Allen Lane, 2012. Includes bibliographical references and index. The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark. Sunday Times And Independent Books Of The Year 2012. 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 n ew 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 re tells 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.
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