Total War Rome Destroy Carthage Analysis

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As I’ve finished reading “Total War Rome Destroy Carthage” I am very pleased with the ending. Overall the book related very well to the game. It also included many historical facts and dates. The book ended off with the Roman victory and the fall of Carthage. Fabius had said “The war is over my friend” Scipio said nothing, but looked across the sea to the north-east. The story of Rome’s struggle with Carthage was truly a story of total war, of a conflict spread over more than a century in which utter destruction of one side was the only possible outcome. The novel focused on the final decades leading up to the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. Fabius, who accompanies Scipio from his beginnings in Rome through the wars in Macedonia and Spain to

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