Sir, I just finished Agincourt. I could not put the book down. What an amazing accomplishment! I salute you! I speak on a number of topics related to ethics and leadership and use history as a foundation for many of my talks. As a former military officer and now corporate executive with over 40 years of leadership and management experience, I have come to appreciate that a strong connection with our past is essential if we are to lead other individuals today even under the most difficult circumstances. I had some combat experience in fighter aircraft (Desert Storm) and logged 1,020 carrier landings in some horrendous conditions over my career. I have some sense of the feeling one gets in the pit of ones stomach in committing to action most likely nothing like what was experienced in Medieval warfare. As I read Agincourt and your vivid description of the men preparing for battle, I could sense their anxiety, fear, and self-doubt. King Henry was impressive, not in the sense that he pursued the mission with his force diminished and sick, but the fact that he quickly devised a strategy, managed his forces and got out in front to fight with his men offers an excellent measure of the King’s strategic thinking, leadership ability, and character. He led by example, and he managed to elicit the best efforts from his men. I salute the French as well for their courage and willingness to lay it all on the line to defend their homeland. If they had a leader like Henry at Agincourt, this story would have had a different outcome. Your work, Mr. Cornwell, provides a wonderful vehicle to encourage members of any culture to read, understand and connect with their past. Some one once wrote, “To be human is to remember.” I would carry that further and offer that to remember is to survive. Again, thank you so much for your dedication to recapture, with such brilliance, those events from the past that help shape a nations cultural identify. We need more of that, particularly here in the United States. I am in awe of your work. I have a lot of reading to do to catch up on your other masterpieces. Keep up the good work. With my best personal regards, Marv Serhan Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired)