Why Rosemary loves this book
This book completely changed my understanding of that period of history leading up to 1914, and the myth on which my British cultural identity is founded. That’s a big thing for a book to achieve.
4 authors picked The Sleepwalkers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In The Sleepwalkers acclaimed historian and author of Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark, examines
the causes of the First World War.
SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012
The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed…
