The Sleepwalkers

Author : Christopher Clark
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062199225

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One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. 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 and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe’s descent into a war that tore the world apart.

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1773239074

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The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch Pdf

First published in the US in 1932, The Sleepwalkers is about three protagonists "sleepwalking", that is, living between vanishing and emerging ethical systems just as the somnambulist exists in a state between sleeping and waking. Together they present a panorama of German society and its progressive deterioration of values that culminated in defeat and collapse at the end of World War I. The novel explores what Broch described as "the loneliness of the I" in its three parts. The protagonists of the first two parts of the book are represented as holding to certain sets of values. Broch describes the struggles they undergo as their codes for living, or values, prove inadequate to the realities of the social environment they find themselves in. Joachim von Pasenow in the first part is "the romantic". In the second part, August Esch tries to live according to the motto "business is business". Eventually, in the third part, the amoral Huguenau's only standard for behavior is his personal profit. He follows this maxim in all his actions, swindling and murdering without remorse. Ultimately, he reaches a point of zero values without remorse and his dealings bring him finally to the zero point of values. Although Broch doesn't hold Huguenau up as someone to admire, he does present him as the inevitable harbinger of fascism. As one reviewer noted, "His characters are sleepwalkers because their own lives are shaped by the forces of the nightmare reality in which they live."

Author : Hermann Broch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:721196364

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Author : J. Gabriel Gates
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780757315886

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The Sleepwalkers by J. Gabriel Gates Pdf

A chilling and masterfully crafted teen horror novel guaranteed to keep the pages turning, the mind reeling, and the lamp on any reader's bedside table on long after midnight. Privileged and popular Caleb Mason is celebrating his high school graduation when he receives a mysterious, disturbing letter from his long-lost childhood playmate, Christine. Caleb and his jokester friend Bean decide to travel to his tiny hometown of Hudsonville, Florida, to find her. Upon arrival, they discover the town has taken a horrifying turn for the worse. Caleb's childhood home is abandoned and his father has disappeared. Children are going missing. The old insane asylum has reopened, and Christine is locked inside. Her mother, a witch, is consumed with madness, and Christine's long-dead twin sister whispers clues to Caleb through the static of an a.m. radio. The terrifying prophesies of the spirits are coming to pass. Sixteen clocks are ticking; sixty-six murdered souls will bring about the end of the world. As Caleb peels back layer after layer of mystery, he uncovers a truth more horrible than anything he had imagined, a truth that could only be uttered by the lips of the dead.

Author : Viviane Schwarz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484402758

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The Sleepwalkers by Viviane Schwarz Pdf

The Sleepwalkers live in sleep and save dreamers from their nightmares. The current Sleepwalkers are ready to retire, but they must first recruit and train their replacements.

Author : Mira Jacob
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Brothers
ISBN : 9781408841143

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The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob Pdf

Of all the family gatherings in her childhood, one stands out in Amina's memory. It is 1979, in Salem India, when a visit to her grandmother's house escalates into an explosive encounter, pitching brother against brother, mother against son. In its aftermath, Amina's father Thomas rushes his family back to their new home in America. And while at first it seems that the intercontinental flight has taken them out of harm's way, his decision sets off a chain of events that will forever haunt Thomas and his wife Kamala; their intellectually furious son, Akhil and the watchful young Amina. Now, twenty years later, Amina receives a phone call from her mother. Thomas has been acting strangely and Kamala needs her daughter back. Amina returns to the New Mexico of her childhood, where her mother has always filled silences with food, only to discover that getting to the truth is not as easy as going home. Confronted with Thomas's unwillingness to talk, Kamala's Born Again convictions, and the suspicion that not everything is what it seems, Amina finds herself at the centre of a mystery so tangled that to make any headway, she has to excavate her family's painful past. And in doing so she must lay her own ghosts to rest.

Author : Christopher Clark
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141904023

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Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark Pdf

'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ... The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely the best history of Prussia in any language' Sunday Telegraph

Author : Lynne Olson
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400069743

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Those Angry Days by Lynne Olson Pdf

Traces the crisis period leading up to America's entry in World War II, describing the nation's polarized interventionist and isolation factions as represented by the government, in the press and on the streets, in an account that explores the forefront roles of British-supporter President Roosevelt and isolationist Charles Lindbergh. (This book was previously featured in Forecast.)

Author : Paul Grossman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429949465

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The Sleepwalkers by Paul Grossman Pdf

Berlin, 1932. In the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, as Hitler and his National Socialist party angle to assume control of Germany, beautiful girls are seen sleepwalking through the streets. Then, a young woman of mysterious origin, with her legs bizarrely deformed, is pulled dead from the Havel River. Willi Kraus, a high ranking detective in Berlin's police force, begins a murder investigation. A decorated World War I hero and the nation's most famous detective, Willi also is a Jew. Despite his elite status in the criminal police, he is disturbed by the direction Germany is taking. Working urgently to identify the dead woman and solve the murder, Willi finds his superiors diverting him at every turn, and is forced to waste precious time on a politically-sensitive missing person case. Colleagues seem to avoid him; a man on a streetcar stops him from reading a newspaper over his shoulder; he is uncomfortably aware of being watched. But he persists, and soon enters the dangerous Berlin underworld of debauched nightclubs, prostitutes with secrets to hide, and a hypnotist with troubling connections. As he moves through darkness closer to the truth, Willi begins to understand that much more than the solution to a murder is at stake. What he discovers will mean that his life, the lives of his friends and family, and Germany itself will never be the same The Sleepwalkers is a powerful, dramatic debut thriller of a nation's unstoppable corruption, featuring a good man trapped between his duty to serve and his grave doubts about what, and who, he serves.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143190240

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The War That Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress, and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict that killed millions, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe’s dominance of the world. It was a war that could have been avoided up to the last moment—so why did it happen? Beginning in the early nineteenth century and ending with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, award-winning historian Margaret Macmillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes, national decisions, and just as important, the small moments of human muddle and weakness that led Europe from peace to disaster. This masterful exploration of how Europe chose its path towards war will change and enrich how we see this defining moment in history.

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199976270

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The Great War by Peter Hart Pdf

Focusing on the decisive engagements of World War I, the author explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders on all sides, looking at the changing weapons and tactics and offering his own assessment on what brought about the war's outcome.

Author : B. B. Griffith
Publisher : Griffith Publishing LLC
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996372619

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The Sleepwalkers by B. B. Griffith Pdf

Is it still a crime if you commit it in your sleep? Ethan Barret is on trial for attempted murder. The problem is, he doesn't remember doing it. His hands committed the crime, but he was asleep the whole time. Ethan Barret is also only twelve years old. Gordon Pope is down on his luck. He was one of the best child-psychiatrists in the country before his divorce. Now he's broke, bored, and spiraling into depression. He agrees to be an expert witness in Ethan's case because he needs the extra cash for drinking money. What he doesn't know is that he's about to be thrown into a race against time to save the boy, and himself, before it's too late for both of them. The Sleepwalkers is a riveting thriller that will change the way you think about sleep--and dreams--forever.

Author : Doug Aitken
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870700456

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Doug Aitken by Doug Aitken Pdf

Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry and Anne Pasternak. Text by Klaus Biesenbach, Peter Eleey, Doug Aitken.

Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007519750

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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings Pdf

A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141394541

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The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler Pdf

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split between science and religion arose and how, in particular, the modern world-view replaced the medieval world-view in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He also provides vivid and judicious pen-portraits of a string of great scientists and makes clear the role that political bias and unconscious prejudice played in their creativity.