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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Visited War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s captivating account of the intense origins of World War I.Drawing on new grant, Clark provides a clean look at World War I, concentrating not on the struggles and atrocities of the war alone, but on the complicated events and associations that brought several well-meaning leaders into raw conflict.Clark traces the pathways to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed story that reduces between your crucial choice facilities in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and investigates the years of history that advised the events of 1914 and particulars the common misunderstandings and the crisis that was driven by unintended signals forward in several brief weeks.Meticulously researched and well composed, Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers is just an authoritative and remarkable chronicle of Europe’s ancestry right into a battle that took the planet apart.