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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark’™s ‘œSleepwalkers” is a highly acclaimed study of the causes of World War I. Charting the problems leading up to the Great War, from the polarization of Europe in 1887 ‘“ 1907 to the actual commencement of the fighting, the book presents the personalities and the unfolding events in London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Belgrade in considerable detail, but its author never looses sight of the simple fact that serious books on history should also be readable and enjoyed by the wider public. The book received great reviews from fellow authors and historians, and was selected by several newspapers and periodicals as one of their books of 2102. AWARDS: The Sleepwalkers was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, and is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, French Prix Aujourd`hui, Cundill Recognition of Excellence Prize, Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature, and the Braunschweiger GeschichtspreisA SELECTION FROM THE REVIEWS: Max Hastings, Sunday Times: “Formidable …one of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published”. Niall Ferguson: “A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations”. Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review: “[Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among themselves without reason…[Clark] demolishes the standard view…The brilliance of Clark`s far-reaching history is that we are able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue…In conception, steely scholarship and piercing insights, his book is a masterpieceABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine`s College. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Iron Kingdom ‘“ a history of Prussia. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer`s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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