Prisoners of Time
Prussians, Germans and Other Humans
$25.15
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2022
Summary
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 the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality of Clark’s writing so compelling, Prisoners of Time<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141997315 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141997311 |
| Author: | Christopher Clark |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 197mm |
Critics Review
A bravura examination of political power … Clark displays [his] brilliance and bracing intellect to exhilarating effect … The pleasure of Clark’s writing is that it embraces an impressive spectrum of thought, without ever losing sight of the historical truth, or of the difficulty in reaching it. – Andrew Anthony * The Guardian *
A resounding success … [Clark] has a knack for writing accounts of the past that make waves in the present. In Prisoners of Time, Clark brings the same complexity to the subject of history itself … Erudite. – Jeremy Cliffe * New Statesman *
Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He was knighted in 2015. He is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Iron Kingdom, The Sleepwalkers and Time and Power and is currently writing a history of the revolutions of 1848.
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