Christopher Clark

The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its...

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 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...

An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history. There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. As if by magic, in city after city, from Palermo to Paris, huge crowds gathered, sometimes peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had held sway since the...

A collection of illuminating essays from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers. Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century—a remarkable rethinking of the origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how we see both the past and the present. For the many readers who found...

A remarkable micro-history from the author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring. Now part of the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, the former Prussian and German port of Königsberg has always been a somewhat sleepy place, doomed to be famous for having once been the residence of Immanuel Kant. But in the late 1830s, just for a short while, it...

From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, comes a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time. This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick...

One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018 One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history - Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von...

An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the celebrations . . . There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city after city,...