The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 - Tapa blanda

"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

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

"A meticulously researched, superbly organized, and handsomely written account."--MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History

"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 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

"This book is as authoritative as it is gripping. . . . Clark provides a vivid panorama of the jostling among Europe's policymakers. . . . The reader is rapt as 'watchful but unseeing' protagonists head for inconceivable horror."--The Independent

"Clark's narrative sophistication, his philosophical awareness, and his almost preternatural command of his sources make The Sleepwalkers an exemplary instance of how to navigate this tricky terrain. The best book on the origins of the First World War that I know."--Thomas Laqueur, The London Review of Books