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MAG 105 - Total War

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The Importance of Survival in a Land Devastated by War

After the fall of Ancheng, I wandered this desolate country for how long. Days went by with not a single living creature to be seen and only the dead of a company. It struck me then how few of the fallen had died by the hand of another. War kills just as surely with hunger and sickness,. For everyone bloodied and murdered, there were ten wasted to nothing, or black with disease and rot. They are one and the same. Some months ago I was captured, not by the typing or the imperial forces, at least they weren't anymore. Believing me to still be a British officer, they intended it seemed to ransom me - but they knew of no British

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