I'll sleep on it and let you know tomorrow. In The Sleepwalkers, University of Cambridge historian Christopher Clark presents a sophisticated and compelling account of the origins of World War I. This lecture explores new ways of understanding the crisis that brought war to Europe in the summer of 1914 reflects on some of the problems of interpretation that have dogged the debate over the war's origins and considers the contemporary resonance of a catastrophe that is now nearly a century old.

To put off making a decision about (something) overnight. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events. It seems another 25000 have been written this year. It broke out as the result of a conspiracy between the governments of imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary to bring about war. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 sleepwalk Tombs and Adam Tooze have helped me to sharpen arguments. Over the past century, more than 25000 books have been written on the origins of the First World War. WW1 did not break out by accident or because diplomacy failed.

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