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THE SLEEPWALKERS - CHRISTOPHER CLARK KARTONIERT...

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 Sleepwalkers reveals in gripping detail how
the crisis leading to World War I unfolded. Drawing on fresh sources  it traces the paths to
war in a minute-by-minute  action-packed narrative that cuts among the key decision centers in
Vienna  Berlin  St. Petersburg  Paris  London  and Belgrade. Distinguished historian
Christopher Clark examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details
the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few
short weeks. How did the Balkans?a peripheral region far from Europe's centers of power and
wealth?come to be the center of a drama of such magnitude? How had European nations organized
themselves into opposing alliances  and how did these nations manage to carry out foreign
policy as a result? Clark reveals a Europe racked by chronic problems?a fractured world of
instability and militancy that was  fatefully  saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of
political leaders. These rulers  who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism 
stumbled through crisis after crisis and finally convinced themselves that war was the only
answer. Meticulously researched and masterfully written  The Sleepwalkers is a magisterial
account of one of the most compelling dramas of modern times.

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