Hallo, I’ve come across the Harlequin in a local shop just a few days ago and I couldn’t put it down since – great reading for the Christmas mayhem going on all around me ;) – undemanding, relaxing yet educative at the same time. As for the educative part though, there came a surprising blunder at the end of the book. I guess someone must’ve pointed this out before – in the final battle of Crécy, you let die a person who in fact had later become one of them more significant rulers of that age, Charles I. (son of John of Luxembourg, aka Charles IV. as the Roman Emperor). It is said that he really was fighting in that battle, even that he got into serious trouble and thus his father led that desperate attack to save him (though I bet the old blind veteran actually longed to end his life in such a grand style for quite some time – as his stylish tag line nicely confirms :] -“God willing, it will never happen that a Bohemian king runs off a fight!” :), but Charles surely didn’t die just then as there was a much brighter future in store for him. I’m actually not very good at history, so I like to believe this mistake was a rare exception, for other than that I kind of tend to believe and learn from your books (gonna buy part II tomorrow ;). Best regards, Tom.