The Sleepwalkers (Unabridged)
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2.3 • 4 Ratings
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- £12.99
Publisher Description
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark.
Sunday Times and Independent Books of the Year 2012.
The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule, and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?
In The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes. Above all, it shows how the failure to understand the seriousness of the chaotic, near genocidal fighting in the Balkans would drag Europe into catastrophe.
Customer Reviews
Great book, terrible narration
The narrator is terrible. He is unable to pronounce basic English words and his intonation patterns render sentences incomprehensible. So much effort is spent understanding the English that the content of the book is lost. A shame, as it’s an excellent book, but this edition is unusable.
Awful Narration
Echoing what others have said, the narration is dreadful. Mispronunciation is one thing but it happens so often it becomes a distraction. The narrator also sounds incredibly disinterested throughout.
Good book - but I wish that I’d read it myself.
I can forgive the pronunciation of non-English words - Magyar (“ma-jore”), but “crote” rather than Croat? And how difficult is “suzerainty” or “hegemony”?
2 hours later - I give up. I can’t listen to this anymore…