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Review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
The title, The Sleepwalkers, says it all. I have never understood why the great powers of Europe went to war in 1914 and after reading this, it is clear that they did not know either. This book is about how it happened, in a huge narrative on all the contributing players, from the tubercular assassin of Archduke Ferdinand to the ineffectual Tsar in Russ…
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