Summary of Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers is an expansive account of the days, months, and years leading up to World War I. Clark's central contention is that scholars' continuous preoccupation with the question of who was responsible for starting the war stems from an erroneous understanding of the events...

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is 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...

"One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018" "One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History" Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power, and Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947. He lives in Cambridge, England. From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers,...