On the origins of war and the preservation of peace
By: Donald Kagan.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
Subjects: War -- History; Military history
Description: Professor Kagan reveals the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of our own century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-589) and index.