I just read your book “Agincourt” and I must admit that I enjoyed it. Frankly, I didn’t like “Sharpe” and I found your writing style uninteresting. But Agincourt was good with believable characters. Sir John and King Henry stood out as the characters with the best dialogue. As a former Infantry officer I felt you caught some of the misery that goes with being a soldier in the field. The assault on Harfleur was excellent. I also enjoyed your comments at the back of the book. Nevertheless I felt you cut it too close to WS’s Henry V. ie the hanging of Michael/Bardolph. Also until you put all the Eng. Women in the baggage train during the battle it seemed as if Melisande was the only woman on the march. You should have developed the role of the women in the campaign. I hope you do a book based on the English fighting the Spanish in Holland in the late 16th century. I plan to check your non-Sharpe books as I suspect I may have missed some good stuff.

Mike Lewis