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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Numerous alliances and ties among policymakers played a central role in the war’s outbreak itself.
Chapter 3: Europe’s alliance system divided the continent into two polarized camps, significantly raising the risk of a major war.
Chapter 4: Germany and Austria-Hungary were partly to blame for turning a crisis into world war.
Chapter 5: Russia and France share responsibility for the war’s outbreak, too.
Chapter 6: Most people believed that, in the long term, a war was inevitable.
Chapter 7: Many policymakers across various countries perceived advantages in starting an early war.
Chapter 8: Predicting the actions of other countries was hard, thanks to chaotic governments and misinformation.
Chapter 9: The alliances often proved both fickle and unreliable indeed.
Chapter 10: Several promising efforts sought to end the crisis peacefully, even in the final days just before it began.
Chapter 11: Making definitive conclusions from old historical sources is difficult indeed.
Description
Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers takes a fresh look at the outbreak of the First World War, focusing on the alliances established among Europe’s nations in the years leading up to 1914. In his compelling and masterful account, Clark examines the decisions, both big and small, that led to the outbreak, and investigates the common belief that the war was an inevitability.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone who wants to learn more about the outbreak of the First World War
- Anyone interested in European history and international relations
- Anyone interested in how wars can start