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May 9, 2013 · In “The Sleepwalkers,” Christopher Clark, a professor of modern European history at Cambridge, describes how within 10 days czarist Russia’s ministers had created a narrative to justify ...
Sep 27, 2012 · 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.
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Apr 2, 2012 · A massive, wide-ranging chronicle of the events, personalities and failures of the run-up to World War I. Clark (Modern European History/Univ. of Cambridge; Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, 2006, etc.) lays out the long and violent history of Serbian nationalism, the confusion in the dying Austro-Hungarian empire and ...
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Apr 30, 2014 · Sleepwalkers stresses that instead of being an inevitable conflict, The Great War was the result of miscalculation and misunderstanding by diplomatic and political actors across Europe in the lead up to and aftermath of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in June of 1914.
Nov 17, 2015 · The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 By Christopher Clark New York: HarperCollins, 2013. Christopher Clark’s book on the origins of World War I has rightly already received much praise. His easy-to-read style makes this complex subject accessible to a broad audience.
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Apr 23, 2013 · The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is Clark's history of Europe in the years leading up to World War I — a war that claimed 20 million lives, injured even more than that and...
