The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers
| Full title | The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 |
|---|---|
| Author | Christopher Clark |
| Published | 2012 |
| Pages | 696 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Clark’s reconstruction of the July 1914 crisis, arguing that Europe’s leaders walked into the war watchful but blind rather than being dragged in by any one guilty party — the current standard account of 1914, and a case study in how a decision system fails without anyone deciding to fail. |
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — a reply naming Christopher Clark’s book, to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
About this edition
Not to be confused with Arthur Koestler’s 1959 The Sleepwalkers, a history of cosmology.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- World War I — the subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.