The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet · Book 3
Fire and Sword
- Published
- 11 June 2009
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN-13
- 9780755324378
- Type
- novel
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About this book
Fire and Sword arrived two years later, in June 2009, running 528 pages across the Peninsular War and Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia, alternating chapters between Wellington and Napoleon as Simon Scarrow's parallel origin story nears its climax.
Its place in The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet
Fire and Sword is book 3 in the The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet series. It follows The Generals. It is followed by The Fields of Death. See the full The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet reading order.
Simon Scarrow's Wellington and Napoleon Quartet tells parallel origin stories of two boys born the same year, 1769, on opposite sides of Europe, who would spend their adult lives as each other's ultimate adversary: Arthur Wesley (later Wellesley, Duke of Wellington), a younger son of minor Anglo-Irish gentry with little apparent promise, and Napoleon Buonaparte, a poor Corsican cadet mocked for his accent at a French military academy. Young Bloods follows both through their unpromising, often humiliating early…
Editions
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