On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan PAPERBACK 9780385423755

On the Origins of War\nby Donald Kagan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 6\u20137 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Donald Kagan\nTitle: On the Origins of War\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Military history\nPublisher: Random House USA Inc\nPublication year: 1996\nISBN-13: 9780385423755\nISBN-10: 0385423756\nRRP: \u00A317.50\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA brilliant and vitally important history of why states go to war, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Peloponnesian War. \n\nWar has been a fact of life for centuries. By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous World Wars of the twentieth century, renowned historian Donald Kag.