Started the sleepwalkers. A book on the, often hidden, mechanisms that lead to WWI. Not out to deal out blasé as a first objektiv but more to explain mechanismsbehind and how the world started a world war over a rather unimportant archduke. Consider the six main players (Serbia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, France, Britain and Russia) with excursions to Italy and the Osman kingdom (Turkey) too. I've read books on this subject before, it is a rather hotly discussed theme in WWI history, so a newer and different approach will be interesting. The name is misleading though. He does not seem to believe that the actors, on any side of the issue, was as unaware of possible consequences of their choices as they later claimed. And when they write of their experiences they focus on war and almost totally neglect the actions that lead to war. So this is not about, Verdun, Somme or Ypres but about Sarajevo , the french-russian alliance, the austrian ultimatum and the serbian response and other such things. Started well.