528 pages | PaperbackNow for the first time in trade paperback: AStar WarsLegends classic featuring the ever-popular Thrawn, repackaged to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lucasfilm.

Here is the #1New York Timesbestselling novel that reignited the entireStar Warspublishing phenomenon. The biggest event in the history ofStar Warsbooks,Heir to the Empirefollows the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia after they led the Rebel Alliance to victory inStar Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.

Five years after the Death Star was destroyed and Darth Vader and the Emperor were defeated, the galaxy is struggling to heal the wounds of war, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting twins, and Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of new Jedi Knights.

But thousands of light-years away, the last of the Emperors warlordsthe brilliant and deadly Grand Admiral Thrawnhas taken command of the shattered Imperial fleet, readied it for war, and pointed it at the fragile heart of the New Republic. For this dark warrior has made two vital discoveries that could destroy everything the courageous men and women of the Rebel Alliance fought so hard to create.

Story Locale:A galaxy far, far away.