The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's account of the events in Europe leading up to the First World War. which provides an account and context of the brutal assassination of King Alexander, Queen Draga and the oppressive Minister of War in June 1903, dubbed the Serbian "Revolution" by the British minister in Belgrade George Bonham. From this scene one can see the shadow powers emerge from the radical Party which had won an absolute majority of Skupstina's seats in July 1901. Consisting of many powerful bankers and merchants who were threatened by Alexander's autocratic manipulations and reform which was seen as pro -Vienna which was locking the Serbian economy into an Austrian monopoly and depriving the country's capitalists of access to world markets. It was during these claims that a military conspiracy was conceived around Lieutenant Dragutin Demitrijevic, later known as "Apis", who would play a vital role at the dawn of the Great War in 1914 as he continued efforts to weaken Austria. -Hungary under the new regime. After the assassination in June 1903 Apis was considered a national hero after Skipstina thanked him for his role in the bloody conspiracy. Many of the June 11 plotters reportedly secured desirable military positions. However this would leave a legacy of fear in the new regime knowing what it was capable of. This concern was raised in 1905 when Captain Milan Novakovic produced a manifesto calling for the removal of sixty-eight known prominent regicides. Novakovic was immediately jailed for two years and after his release he continued to question the relationship between the army and civilian authorities to no avail. The issue being unresolved... in the middle of the card... would bring them to the battlefields, the Third Baltic War known as the Great War or First World War. Clark does an extraordinary job of creating an academic historical account. The argument about the events leading up to the First World War is interesting and at the same time presents a new narrative that distributes culpability across Europe and not, as an overarching narrative, exclusively to Germany. Perhaps what is most significant is the relevance of diplomacy in the context of the ideals and culture that each side had in making decisions which, according to Clark, were to avoid war, however the dominance of masculinity, nationalism and fear would end up write a screenplay that would lead to the Great War. Clark's account is definitely thorough and gave me a better understanding of how World War I and the Baltic conflict began in the 1990s. fills what I would call a huge void in European history.