On the Origins of War
Subtitle: And the Preservation of Peace
Publisher: Anchor
Published: January 1, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780385423755
First sentence: FOR ALMOST THREE decades at the end of the fifth century B.C. the Athenians and their allies fought the Spartans and theirs in a terrible war that changed the Greek world and its civilization forever.