Fifteen Hours

Warhammer 40,000

De: Mitchel Scanlon

Narrado por: Tom Allenby

An Astra Militarum Novel

A young soldier of the Astra Militarum is thrust onto a battlefield where the average life expectancy is just fifteen hours – facing brutal orks, artillery bombardment, and the horrors of no man's land.

Listen to it because

It's a sharp, incisive look at the first hours of war for a new Guardsman, and all the terrors that accompany it…

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 alien orks. The greenskins live for battle and fight without fear, so it's no wonder that the average life-span of an Imperial Guardsman on this forsaken world is only fifteen hours.

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A few hours in the life

I really loved the hour to hour life of a guardsman this book provides. My only complaint is just as I got properly interested ans invested the book ended. It's a slow start with a strong finish. Check it out!

Loved it

Loved the story and the characters and I especially liked how the narrator did voices for each character

A Catch-22 Style Story In The Far, Far Future

Great cast of characters and intimate story with great comedic edge and surprisingly deep and heartfelt character development. Performed expertly, but be prepared for some gut punches

Great story

Love the ending. It shows what it like to be a guardsmen.

Would recommend a listen.

been wanting to read this for years

and it did not disappoint. the ending was predictable, but it played out more interesting than I expected.

great listen

Very good 40k book from the view point of a standard guardsman. No over the top heroics or unbelievable actions. just guardsman stuck in the grim dark future

great story with a narrator I didn't like

I love this book, but one of the more talkative characters gets an extremely grating voice. still worth listening but I had to put it down a few times before getting to the end

A Grimdark Classic

Great narration of a story that really captures the senseless brutality of war in the 40th millennium.

Before Gaunts Ghosts was a thing we had this

loved it, one of the finest guard books out there, were I to recommend 1 book to represent the guard? That is to say they only want to read one? this would be a perfect example.

I didn't give max on the performance because there is a overlap of audio but it lasts less that 30 seconds and is rapidly fixed, its still there though, so that may be a tad frustrating.

generally a great book with a strong story and a wonderful cornerstone of the Lore.

Excellent. Captures the setting at ground level.

Excellent, and great narration. Captures the setting from a ground level. It has a WWI war story feel wrapped into the grim dark setting.