How Europe went into the First World War. Based on the novel by Christopher Clark. For a long time, it was considered a foregone conclusion that the German Empire bore the main responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War due to its dreams of great power. In his groundbreaking new work, the renowned historian and bestselling author Christopher Clark (Prussia) comes to a different conclusion. Clark meticulously describes the interests and motivations of the most important political players in the European metropolises and paints a picture of a complex world in which mutual mistrust, misjudgements, arrogance, expansionist plans and nationalist aspirations led to a situation in which one spark was enough to trigger the war, the devastating consequences of which hardly anyone was able to foresee. It is already clear that "The Sleepwalkers" will be one of the most important new publications to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War.
