Hi Bernard. I can’t seem to keep away from your work. I’ve read and re-read everything (I think) and as a result of this I’ve read lots of other work,’Years of the sword’ is brilliant, just re- read it (again). I’ve read so much and visited most of the peninsular battlefields that I’ve got a local reputation as a war historian, A guy brought a rusty old firearm for me to peruse. With a name like mine I just happen to have a collection of firearm reference books. It was an 1870’s martini henry of British Manufacture, apparently sold to The Turks and rescued from them by the Bulgarian Rebels. Now what a story it could have told! I live in Bulgaria quite near to some famous (locally anyway) battlefields, these stories I think need re-telling, any of your budding writer fans want to have a go? Thanks again for the pleasure you bring. Live long and die happy. Roy Manton