Young Bloods

Its place in The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet

Young Bloods is book 1 in the The Wellington and Napoleon Quartet series. It is followed by The Generals. 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…