Full name: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Author: Christopher Clark Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Award winners, War/Military, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780061146664 0061146668

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. Similar books: The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan The First World War by John Keegan Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin The Origins of the First World War by James Joll The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson The Vanquished by Robert Gerwarth The First World War by Martin Gilbert The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins A World Undone by G. J. Meyer The Lost History of 1914 by Jack Beatty World War One by Norman Stone A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro The First World War by Hew Strachan The Deluge by Adam Tooze Generation Kill by Evan Wright Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan Ghost Wars by Steve Coll Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran The Forever War by Dexter Filkins