“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — The Boston Globe
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and 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.
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.
© 2020 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780063008595
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 28 april 2020
“A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — The Boston Globe
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and 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.
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.
© 2020 HarperAudio (Ljudbok): 9780063008595
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 28 april 2020
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Matias
21 apr. 2022
Lyssnade igenom Guns of August mest för att den var mysig att lyssna på och ville därefter få ett bättre helhetsgrepp på händelseförloppen som ledde fram till kriget. Det levererades på ett utmärkt sätt, inte minst tack vare ett klart upplägg där bokens innehåll fördjupas i en väldisponerad ordning.
Anders
6 jan. 2021
En grundlig genomgång av orsakerna till VK1 utbrott. Fokus ligger på HUR det kunde ske och inte på VEM som bar skulden.
Lillian
1 maj 2021
Topp bok och topp uppläsare
Martin
19 juli 2022
Ett referensverk
Måns
18 okt. 2023
Kusligt aktuell bok, även för en rutinerad historielärare.
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