But now the very future of the regiment is in jeopardy as Gaunt's Ghosts battle the forces of Chaos across the Sabbat Worlds. However, much of Sin's Infardi horde has pulled back into the hills; leaving the Ghosts with no choice but to fight the heretics while at the same time fighting the elements and navigating the unfamiliar terrain. Amongst the defenders of the Imperium are the troops of the Tanith First-and-Only, a displaced regiment forced to flee their home planet before it succumbed to the unrelenting assault of Chaos. The first is Double Eagle, focusing on the Phantine Air Corps introduced in The Guns of Tanith and set in the same immediate timeframe as Sabbat Martyr. A book that covers a battle long lost against the past while facing chaos forces in the Sabbat worlds.

However, once the flashbacks ended, it took a couple of pages to realize there was a present tense to the story in the last few chapters.Only the perspective of a very warhammerish final, that usually goes against the odds, kept me reading.

He also scripted Macragge's Honour, the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, as well as numerous Black Library audio dramas. Every settled planet in the Imperium of Man is subject to the Imperial tithe: as many able-bodied men as that planet can provide to feed the meat grinder of The Emperor's wars. You don't like reading about war, and lots of violent action (seriously, avoid these books like the plague). This is a man who appreciates loyalty, and truth, and has a genuine conviction in the divinity of his Emperor, and in the necessity of the Guard to help keep humanity safe.A warp-beacon is activated in the process, and a Chaos fleet advances on Hagia to obliterate the Imperial forces. Through the latter, readers are granted an insight into the lives of the wives and other civilians that follow Imperial Guard regiments around the galaxy. You have no interest in the Warhammer 40k universe, and are pretty certain you couldn't be persuaded to have interest.

And it follows the story of the Tanith First-and-Only regiment, specialits in scout and recon, (nicknamed the Ghosts) and their charismatic commissar, Ibram Gaunt.This omnibus includes a variety of short stories from Ghost engagements on multiple worlds, and uses that as a framing device, showing us the perspective of different key personnel in the Ghosts. The Ghosts fight on Voltemand, Ramillies, Caligula, Bucephalon, Typhon Eight, Nacedon, Sapiencia and Monthax.

It avoids glorifying the conflicts the Guard take part in, and lets us see them as humanity doing its best to survive, to do the right thing, and to make things better.I do think it's very clear what Abnett was doing here, it's not subtle, but neither does he beat you over the head about it. The Tanith First-And-Only are among the most legendary of these regiments of Imperial Guard, and at their head stands Commissar Ibram Gaunt, unflinching in duty and unrelenting in combat. Through the first book, we meet the Ghosts and Gaunt himself, and while there’s very little backstory your gripped from the beginning and begin to pick up the story as it goes along.