Sleepwalkers - Tapa dura

"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

"Clark is a masterly historian. . . . His account vividly reconstructs key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them. . . . A magisterial work."--The Wall Street Journal

"A thoroughly comprehensive and highly readable account. . . . 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."--Harold Evans, The New York Times Book Review

"A great book. . . An amazing narrative history of the crisis and the larger context."--Slate

"A superb account of the causes of the first world war. . . . Clark brilliantly puts this illogical conflict into context."--The Guardian

"Excellent. . . . Where Clark excels is in explaining how the pre-war diplomatic maneuvers resembled a giant exercise in game theory."---The Economist

"An important book. . . . One of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published."--Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

"Excellent. . . . The book is stylishly written as well as superb scholarship. No analysis of the origins of the First World War will henceforth be able to bypass this magisterial work."--Ian Kershaw, BBC History

"The most readable account of the origins of the First World War since Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August. The difference is that The Sleepwalkers is a lovingly researched work of the highest scholarship."--Niall Ferguson

"A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable."--The Boston Globe

Illustrated with dozens of black-and-white photos, this authoritative chronicle, drawing on new research on World War I, traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, fast-paced narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914. 25,000 first printing.