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Fifteen Hours

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Novel
First published
12 Jul 2005
Length
256 pp · ~4h 42m read
Rating
3.941,652 ratingsRating distribution: 1-star: 18 · 2-star: 81 · 3-star: 414 · 4-star: 613 · 5-star: 526. See the reviews on Goodreads (opens in a new tab)132 reviews on Goodreads  (opens in a new tab)
Audiobook
4.67309 ratingsPerformance4.77Story4.677h 18m·Tom AllenbyReviews on Audible  (opens in a new tab)
ISBN-13
9781844162314
Featuring
Astra MilitarumOrks

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Synopsis

An Astra Militarum novel Arvin Larn is terrified. On the battlefields of the far future, only an insane man wouldn’t be. Seventeen years old and still new to the Imperial Guard, he is thrust straight into his first war and must face horrors that his sheltered upbringing could never prepare him for. READ IT BECAUSE It's a sharp, incisive look at the first hours of war for a new Guardsman, and at all the terrors attendant with that… THE STORY Arvin Larn is terrified. On the battlefields of the far future, only an insane man wouldn't be. Seventeen years old and still new to the Imperial Guard, he is thrust straight into his first war and must face horrors that his sheltered upbringing could never prepare him for. The trenches of the 41st millennium are filled with worse things than rats and trenchrot. For one, the world they fight for is being contested by the monstrous barbarian orks. The orks live for battle and know no fear, so it's no wonder that the average life-span of an Imperial Guardsman on this forsaken world is only fifteen hours.