„The best book I have read this year, or indeed for several years“
— Simon Heffer, New Statesman, Book of the year
„The arguments [Clark] sets out in this quite superb account of the cause of the First World war are so compelling that they effectively consign the old historical consensus to the bin…
A masterpiece. It’s not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history.“
— Simon Griffith, Daily Mail