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False Gods (The Horus Heresy, #2)

by Graham McNeill

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Sep 18, 2016 09:20AM

“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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