![]() ![]() And alas, although Clark’s prose is clear and engaging, few writers have the narrative gifts of Ms. In addition, an extraordinary number of books has been written about the origins of WW I in the past fifty years. Also, his book has many competitors since we are now entering the centenary of the Great War’s birth in 1914 the presses are humming. Given the depth of research and complexity of approach, Clark’s purpose in writing The Sleepwalkers was perhaps to establish a benchmark rather than to write a best seller. His book, however, will not be a best seller as was hers. Not perhaps since Barbara Tuchman’s Guns of August (1962) has a single volume captured the milieu out of which the Great War emerged so compellingly as does Clark’s. ![]() Will our understanding be enhanced by another one? If it is as readable and insightful as Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, then the answer is yes. ![]() In the past century more than 25,000 books have been published about World War I and its origins. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to war in 1914 ![]()
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