Some Damn Foolish Thing
Thomas Laqueur: Wrong Turn in Sarajevo, 5 December 2013
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark.
Allen Lane, 697 pp., £30, September 2013,978 0 7139 9942 6 Show More
by Christopher Clark.
Allen Lane, 697 pp., £30, September 2013,
“... to inevitability.’ This doesn’t, I think, preclude the view offered fifty years ago by Paul Schroeder, a leading American diplomatic historian, that the statesmen and politicians involved felt themselves to be in the grip of forces beyond their control and that this perception influenced their actions. Nor does it mean that some – indeed most ... ”