|a Europe |x Politics and government |y 1871-1918. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe’s descent into a war that tore the world apart. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a. In all of this, such leaders were sleepwalkers,generally unaware of the horrific consequences of the war they were about to unleash. |a World War, 1914-1918 |x Diplomatic history. The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clarks riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. |a An authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914. An authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute narrative that examines the decades of. An authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-666) and index. The sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914 /. There were no Advanced Highers in those days so in history class WW1 was studied for a whole term. CONTEXT The proposer indicated that in 1964 on the 50th anniversary of WW1 he was in 6th format school. |a "First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books" -Title page verso. Before turning to ‘The Sleepwalkers’ some context would be helpful. |a xxxi, 697 pages : |b illustrations, maps |c 24 cm Jörn Leonhards impressive study of World War I, which appeared in 2014, also consciously referred back to The Sleepwalkers, arguing that the European protagonists were certainly no sleepwalkers in the sense of acting unconsciously.
|a The sleepwalkers : |b how Europe went to war in 1914 / |c Christopher Clark.
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