Download or read book On the Origins of War written by Donald Kagan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1995 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 20th century and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kagan reveals new insights into the nature of war--and peace--that are vitally important and often surprising.