Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II and Iron Kingdom. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Sleepwalkers was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize, and is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, French Prix Aujourd hui, Cundill Recognition of Excellence Prize, Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature and the Braunschweiger Geschichtspreis.
Formidable ... one of the most impressive and stimulating studies
of the period ever published
*Sunday Times*
Easily the best book ever written on the subject ... A work of rare
beauty that combines meticulous research with sensitive analysis
and elegant prose. The enormous weight of its quality inspires
amazement and awe ... Academics should take note: Good history can
still be a good story
*Washington Post*
A lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard
to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps
the biggest collective blunder in the history of international
relations
*Niall Ferguson*
[Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been turned on
a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among
themselves without reason ... [Clark] demolishes the standard view
... The brilliance of Clark's far-reaching history is that we are
able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue ... In
conception, steely scholarship and piercing insights, his book is a
masterpiece
*New York Times Book Review*
Impeccably researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written
... a model of scholarship
*Sunday Times Books of the Year*
Superb ... effectively consigns the old historical consensus to the
bin ... It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book
that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of
world history
*Mail Online*
A monumental new volume ... Revelatory, even revolutionary ...
Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable
*Boston Globe*
Superb ... One of the great mysteries of history is how Europe's
great powers could have stumbled into World War I ... This is the
single best book I have read on this important topic
*Fareed Zakaria*
A meticulously researched, superbly organized, and handsomely
written account
*Military History*
Clark is a masterly historian ... His account vividly reconstructs
key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them
... A magisterial work
*Wall Street Journal*
This compelling examination of the causes of World War I deserves
to become the new standard one-volume account of that contentious
subject
*Foreign Affairs*
A brilliant contribution
*Times Higher Education*
Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject ... He
provides vivid portraits of leading figures ... [He] also gives a
rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the
crises leading up to the war
*Irish Times*
In recent decades, many analysts had tended to put most blame for
the disaster [of the First World War] on Germany. Clark strongly
renews an older interpretation which sees the statesmen of many
countries as blundering blindly together into war
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