![]() ![]() Her book, which starts with a memorable scene of the funeral procession of King Edward VII, is mostly about the first month of the war (August 1914) with a brief part at the beginning about the diplomatic maneuvering and intrigues leading up to the war. Prior to reading this book, most of my knowledge of the outbreak of World War 1 probably came from The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize winning book about the start of the war. Poised to take advantage of the interest was the 2012 book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 2014, by Christopher Clark, the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. ![]() ![]() The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914īeginning in 2014, there was a flurry of activity as we came up to the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I. ![]()
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