Revolutionary Spring

Praise for Revolutionary Spring “Christopher Clark is that rare thing: a great historian who is also a brilliant storyteller, with a gift for sketching scenes and delineating characters with a few deft brushstrokes. Revolutionary Spring is a beautifully written, richly detailed account of a historical moment that rhymes and resonates, in many strange ways, with our own era of turmoil and disruption.”—Amitav Ghosh, author of Sea of Poppies and The Great Derangement Praise for The Sleepwalkers “Easily the best book ever written on the subject . . . a work of rare beauty.”—The Washington Post “A masterpiece.”—Harold Evans, The New York Times Book Review “[A] superb account of the causes of the first world war . . . Clark brilliantly puts this illogical conflict into context.”—The Guardian “The best book I have read this year, or indeed for several years.”—Simon Heffer, The New Statesman “It is hard to believe we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest collective blunder in the history of international relations.”—Niall Ferguson “The arguments [Clark] sets out in this quite superb account of the causes of the First World War are so compelling that they effectively consign the old historical consensus to the bin.”—Simon Griffith, Daily Mail “One of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published.”—Max Hastings, The Sunday Times