Macharian Crusade Reading Order

William King

The opening chapter of the Macharian Crusade, narrated by a common Imperial Guardsman in the army of the legendary Lord High Commander Macharius. As the conquering crusade pushes across the stars, the troopers uncover a daemonic horror buried within a captured world that threatens far more than a single battlefield. A ground-level, soldier's-eye view of one of the Imperium's greatest galactic conquests.

William King

The second Macharian Crusade novel follows the same Guardsmen deeper into Macharius's relentless campaign of conquest. When a sacred relic of a Space Marine Chapter is lost, the troopers are drawn into a desperate effort to recover it, even as ork warbands and political rivalries threaten the crusade from within. The grand sweep of empire-building seen through the eyes of those who do the dying.

William King

The closing volume of the Macharian Crusade trilogy charts the twilight of the great conquest as Macharius's empire begins to fray. With the Lord High Commander's strength waning and his generals scheming, the loyal Guardsmen must endure betrayal, civil war, and the collapse of everything they bled to build. A grim meditation on how even the mightiest of human triumphs decays.