Cirrus@Austlit

'Marcus van Veenan thought he’d finally found a quiet posting to see out his career in the Astra Militarum. But when the planet of Rotauri falls to the green tide of warboss ’Eadbasha’s ork invasion, van Veenan and several hundred Guardsmen are taken prisoner by the greenskins and forced to construct a bizarre, colossal ork effigy. With the fate of the regiment in his hands, van Veenan reluctantly sets about leading a daring breakout to escape the prison camp and warn the Imperium of the growing Waaagh!.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'On the world of Raskova, the apex predator is the nocturnadon, better known as the Night Shrieker. These fearsome beasts lend their name to an elite, all-female fighter squadron – and Marina Maranova is their newest recruit. Alongside her friend and rival Alena Nazoya, Marina prepares to scour the skies of the Emperor's enemies. Their first training flight with their new comrades turns deadly when T'au Air Caste forces attack, and Marina is forced into a battle for her life.'

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'The world of Vandicus is in the grip of heresy. Come to liberate it are the forces of the Astra Militarum, among them the Second Rapture Penal Legion. Made up of countless criminals from across the Imperium, the penal legion – known as the "Meat Dogs" – are thrown into the fighting, expected to find their peace with the Emperor in battle. For one such convict, a chance comes for more when he takes command mid-battle… under the eyes of the Inquisition.'

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'The Shadow Crusade spreads across Ultramar, with the Word Bearers 34th Company falling upon the isolated world of Percepton Primus. As the fighting draws out into a programme of extermination, embittered commander Sor Talgron begins to question his part in Lorgar’s grander scheme – for one who stood beside primarchs and high lords in the grand halls of the Imperial Palace, what glory can there now be in punishing Guilliman’s upstart sons? But the price of doubt is known all too well, and if the Word Bearers are ever to return to Terra in triumph then they must purge the last remnants of such unbelief from the face of the galaxy...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Stranded above a daemon world in the heart of the Eye of Terror, Marduk and the 34th Host of the Word Bearers venture onto the tainted planet in search of missing legionaries. But when they encounter the daemonic servant of the Plague God known as the Tallyman, they realise that their desire to save their brothers may doom them all…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The Horus Heresy is over and the Traitor Legions have scattered, fleeing the wrath of a vengeful Imperium. The World Eaters are leaderless, their primarch missing and their greatest hero, Khârn, in a coma. The surviving World Eaters have turned upon themselves, the Butcher’s Nails driving them to ever greater acts of berserk savagery. Poised on the brink of destruction, the Legion needs a leader. It needs Khârn – but will his awakening save them, or doom them entirely?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Darnath Lysander is a man tortured by his past, a past in which the Iron Warriors play a prominent, and unpleasant, role. As the First Captain of the Imperial Fists must choose between the lives of innocents and the death of one of Perturabo’s sons, he recalls a similar incident that haunts him still, and must decide what mistakes are worth repeating.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'In the fighting pits of the Conqueror, Khârn and his fellow World Eaters compete in ever-bloodier contests of carnage and mayhem. As the Butcher’s Nails dig ever deeper into their brains, the Legion have forsaken the Crimson Path. Now they walk a darker, more dangerous road: the Eightfold Path.'

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'Warring with deadly aliens, the Iron Hands are plagued by equipment malfunctions. They are the masters of the machine, but now their technology seems to have a mind of its own…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Battle-Brother Dolmech protects an Adeptus Mechanicus functionary on a rebel-held world. But what do the Iron Hands want with Beneficiari Armicus, and who else is hunting him?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Ajai Khan, sergeant of the White Scars, awaits the foe. He is patient and still, until the enemy are upon him. Then the hunt begins. Pursued by vicious dark eldar, Ajai seems in the gravest of danger… But things are never quite as they seem when the hunt is on.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Anthology of previously published content released to celebrate Warhammer's 25th anniversary.