Your books are not only great entertainment, they are tremendously informative as well. As a Latin teacher, I can tell you that you have done more to interest American students in history than any writer. Just as I learned a lot of history from Shellabarger and the other great writers of historical novels in the 1940s and 1950s, so do they. I introduced many of my students to Richard Sharpe as well as the Saxon stories. They were enthralled. Many of them realized for the first time what a debt the world owes to Great Britain for fighting Napoleon over many weary years and finally defeating him. One of them told me that “if the English hadn’t won at Waterloo, we would have to study irregular French verbs.” Please continue writing. As far as I am concerned, there will never be enough Bernard Cornwell books.
George Thompson