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Sleepwalker
History梦游者
(uk) Christopher Clark
On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Hotek arrived at the Sarajevo train station, Europe was still peaceful. However, 37 days later, war broke out here. The resulting war turned 15 million lives into withered bones, destroyed three empires, and changed world history forever. But to this day, no one can tell how the "World War I" began. What exactly was the trigger for "World War I"? Why did the Sarajevo incident cause a world war? How did the Balkans become the center of such an important event? How did European countries quickly fragment into mutually hostile alliances? How do these countries formulate and implement their foreign policies? Was it the wrong decision of a certain person or a certain country that triggered the "World War I"? What efforts did European countries make to avoid war? Why do every country claim that they were forced into war? Why did a crisis escalate into a world war in just a few weeks? Christopher Clark traces the origins bit by bit from the voluminous historical materials and reconstructs what happened in the decision-making centers of Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London and Belgrade.
On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie Hotek arrived at the Sarajevo train station, Europe was still peaceful. However, 37 days later, war broke out here. The resulting war turned 15 million lives into withered bones, destroyed three empires, and changed world history forever. But to this day, no one can tell how the "World War I" began. What exactly was the trigger for "World War I"? Why did the Sarajevo incident cause a world war? How did the Balkans become the center of such an important event? How did European countries quickly fragment into mutually hostile alliances? How do these countries formulate and implement their foreign policies? Was it the wrong decision of a certain person or a certain country that triggered the "World War I"? What efforts did European countries make to avoid war? Why do every country claim that they were forced into war? Why did a crisis escalate into a world war in just a few weeks? Christopher Clark traces the origins bit by bit from the voluminous historical materials and reconstructs what happened in the decision-making centers of Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London and Belgrade.