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Cover of Of Their Lives in the Ruins of Their Cities by Dan Abnett

Of Their Lives in the Ruins of Their Cities

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Novella
First published
2011
Length
71 pp · ~1h 18m
Reader rating
★ 4.1 from 315 ratings
ISBN-13
9780857872487
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Synopsis

Dan Abnett takes the Tanith First back to the beginning. On Voltemand, long before they gain fame and glory as Gaunt's Ghosts, the Tanith are a broken unit. Crippled by doubt and hating their commander for his part in the death of their world, they are fractious and undisciplined. Leading a patrol into no-man's-land, Gaunt is ambushed. The Tanith must rally around and protect their new leader, or be consigned to history. Read it because It's a beautiful and elegiac tale, looking back at Ghosts long gone and providing a epitaph to many of your favourite characters from the long running series.