Young Bloods

Young Bloods

infobox Book |
name = Young Bloods


image_caption =
author = Simon Scarrow
cover_artist = Tim Byrne
country = United Kingdom
language = English
series = Revolution trilogy
genre = Historical novel
publisher = Hodder Headline
release_date = 19 June, 2006
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 504 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-7553-2433-1
followed_by = The Generals (novel)

"Young Bloods" is the first volume in Simon Scarrow's "Revolution" trilogy, which narrates mostly in alternate chapters, the story of a young Anglo-Irish nobleman Arthur Wesley and the Corsican cadet Naboleone Buonaparte.

Plot

The book begins with the birth of both men in 1769 - Arthur as a weak and puny baby, a third son, to a wealthy Anglo-Irish Protestant couple; Naboleone as a healthy second son to a Corsican couple fighting the French for independence.

The story continues with the training of both youths as cadet officers, both encountering social and other difficulties thanks to their birth outside the mainland. Arthur's innate conservatism forms as a result of the Gordon riots and his realization that his Anglo-Irish Protestant lifestyle is dependent on maintaining the status quo. Naboleone, on the other hand, is even more of an outsider, a Corsican among Frenchmen, a quasi-noble among pre-revolutionary noblemen, and an impoverished young cadet among those with money to burn. The story ends approximately in 1796, with Arthur having been turned down by the family of his "'inamorata" Kitty Pakenham because of his lack of prospects, and Naboleone, now called Napoleon Bonaparte, mounting a successful attack on Toulon.

ee also

Simon Scarrow


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