by Christopher Clark
Clark reconstructs the July 1914 crisis as a chain of decisions made by anxious, ambitious men who stumbled into catastrophe without fully grasping the consequences. Rejecting single-culprit explanations, he argues that the statesmen of all the great powers were sleepwalkers, blind to the disaster their interlocking alliances and miscalculations were producing.
In this collection, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 references 3 other books.
It draws on The Guns of August, The Lessons of History and The Art of War.
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Directly revises Tuchman's Guns of August, replacing her narrative of German aggression and fatal mobilization timetables with a diffuse account of shared responsibility across all capitals
Tests Durant's Lessons of History maxim that war is the constant of history by dissecting the specific decisions through which peace was actually lost
Inverts Sun Tzu's Art of War counsel about knowing one's enemy, showing how European chancelleries in 1914 systematically misread each other's intentions and capabilities
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