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Commissar Yarrick Reading Order

The Commissar Yarrick series in Warhammer 40,000 runs to 3 books. Below is the full reading order in series sequence, so you know exactly where to start Commissar Yarrick and what to read next.

All 3 books in order

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1.Chains of Golgotha

David Annandale

The iron-willed Commissar Sebastian Yarrick, scourge of the orks, is hunted by his old nemesis the warlord Ghazghkull across the blasted world of Golgotha. Captured and pushed to his limits, Yarrick must endure and resist to prove that even in the grimmest defeat the human spirit can refuse to break. A tense, focused novella centered on the legendary feud between man and warboss.

NovelImperial GuardCommissar Yarrickstandalone

667.M41 - 999.M41

era date, medium confidence

2.Imperial Creed

David Annandale

A young Sebastian Yarrick, fresh from the schola progenium, takes up his first posting under a veteran lord commissar on a world wracked by baronial rebellion. What begins as suppressing an uprising unravels into a web of political scheming, a hidden Chaos cult, and clashing Imperial factions that test the future hero's resolve. An origin story tracing how an ordinary officer becomes a living legend.

NovelImperial GuardCommissar Yarrickstandalone

667.M41 - 999.M41

era date, medium confidence

3.The Pyres of Armageddon

David Annandale

The second Yarrick novel depicts the Second War for Armageddon, as Commissar Sebastian Yarrick leads the desperate defense of the hive world against the largest Ork invasion in centuries, led by the warlord Ghazghkull Thraka. Hampered at every turn by Armageddon's corrupt and self-serving Overlord, Yarrick must hold the line through sheer will, forging the legend that will define him. It is a brutal account of the campaign that turned a commissar into a living hero of the Imperium.

NovelImperial GuardCommissar Yarrickmajor

334.M41 - 666.M41

era date, medium confidence