A review by bowienerd_82
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

2.0

Two and a half stars. This started strong but it quickly went downhill. It lacks a coherent narrative, and the author just kept piling on name after name after name, often without giving a good sense of who these people were or why they were important. Clark seemed to expect that the reader should remember the name of someone he brought up once several hundred pages prior with no further context, which got rather frustrating.

In the end, the author got lost in exploring the details without remembering to connect them to a bigger picture.