disreputabledog 's review for:

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

4.0

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This is a difficult book to rate because it is extremely well-written and researched, but it's also PACKED with minor details that will either greatly interest the reader, or make for a challenging read. I'm in the latter camp; while I learned a lot from Clark's book, the only way I could get through it was by skimming 2/3 of it. I would recommend this to someone who is researching the events that led to WWI, but I would not recommend it to someone looking for an overview of this period in European history.