A review by can_has_sock
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

This was not the book I wanted to read. I figured that out fairly early in the book. Logically, I should have put it down and moved on to something else.

I did not, because I am stubborn.

I recuse myself from giving a star rating. I will say that the author needed to remember "Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do." I wound up with a vocabulary list of a couple dozen words that I don't *ever* remember hearing before, or alternate definitions of words I was familiar with, and I don't think it's immodest to say my vocabulary is reasonably large.