“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 (Lydbog): 9780063008595
Release date
Lydbog: 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 (Lydbog): 9780063008595
Release date
Lydbog: 28. april 2020
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Leif
3. aug. 2023
Utrolig grundig bog om årsagen til "den mest komplekse begivenhed i nyere tid". Fortalt i detaljer på grænsen til det kedsommelige, men holdt i gang af dens velskrevenhed og den dygtige oplæser. Man forstår til slut hvordan periodens værdier som "national stolthed", "nationens interesser", "etnisk samhørighed", "ære", "rank ryg" og ide om historien som en uafladelig, ustoppelig fremadrullende maskine, kombinerede til at forvandle et mord på en prins til en krig hvor 17 millioner mennesker døde. Man ser hvordan tingene hænger sammen fra den russisk-japanske krig i 1904, over krigene i Balkan i 1912-13 frem til en situation hvor Rusland og Frankrig er villige til at starte en verdenskrig over Serbiens ret til at snigmyrde en østrigsk prins.
Morten
1. sep. 2022
Meget lang og meget detaljeret, men derfor også nok også tættere på sandheden om krigsudbruddet. Derfor interessant.
P
26. jul. 2023
Imponerende værk, godt indlæst, men jeg er stadig meget forvirret omkring årsagerne til udbruddet af WW1 😏
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26. dec. 2023
Fantastisk detaljeret, fascinerende og gruopvækkende beskrivelse af hvordan menneskeskabte katastrofer kan opstå.
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