Die Schlafwandler

Groundbreaking new insights into the path to World War I in 1914

For a long time, it was taken for granted that the German Empire bore the main responsibility for the outbreak of World War I due to its great power ambitions. In his groundbreaking new work, renowned historian and bestselling author Christopher Clark comes to a different assessment. Clark meticulously describes the interests and motivations of the key political actors in the European metropolises and paints a picture of a complex world where mutual distrust, misjudgments, arrogance, expansionist plans, and nationalist aspirations led to a situation where a single spark was enough to ignite the war, the devastating consequences of which few could foresee. It is already evident that "The Sleepwalkers" will be one of the most important new releases for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I.