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The Sleepwalkers How Europe Went to War in 1914

On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station, Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at war. The conflict that resulted would kill more than fifteen million people, destroy three empires, and permanently alter world history.The SleepwalkersThe Sleepwalkers is a magisterial account of one of the most compelling dramas of modern times.

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  • "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."
  • "On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station, Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at war. The conflict that resulted would kill more than fifteen million people, destroy three empires, and permanently alter world history.The SleepwalkersThe Sleepwalkers is a magisterial account of one of the most compelling dramas of modern times."@en
  • "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 [Hapsburg] rule and it created a poweful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. ... Drawing on many fresh sources, this account reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture, putting Serbia and the Balkans at the centre of the story. Starting with the ... assassination of Alexander I of Serbia in 1903, Clark shows how, far from being the place of enviable stability it appears to us, Europe was racked by chronic problems: a multipolar, fractured, multicultural world of clashing ideals, terrorism, miliotancy and instability, which was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. He shows how the rulers of Europe, who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism, behaved like sleepwalkers, stumbling through crisis after crisis and finally convincing themselves that war was the only answer."@en
  • "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 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."@en

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  • "The Sleepwalkers How Europe Went to War in 1914"@en
  • "Die Schlafwandler : Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog"
  • "Sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914"@en
  • "Sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914"
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  • "The sleepwalkers how Europe went to war in 1914"
  • "Die Schlafwandler : wie Europa Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog"
  • "The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914"
  • "Les somnambules : été 1914: comment l'Europe a marché vers le guerre"
  • "Die Schlafwandler wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog"
  • "˜Dieœ Schlafwandler wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog"
  • "The Sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914"
  • "Die Schlafwandler Wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog"
  • "Les somnambules : été 1914 : comment l'Europe a marché vers la guerre"
  • "Die Schlafwandler Wie Europa 1914 in den Krieg zog"
  • "The sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914"
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  • "Les somnambules : été 1914, comment l'Europe a marché vers la guerre"
  • "Die Schlafwandler : wie Europa in den Ersten Weltkrieg zog"

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