Dear Mr. Cornwell, Did you by any chance happen to see Robert Messenger’s review in the January 6 Wall Street Journal of Max Hasting’s “Warriors: Portraits From the Battlefield”? In case you didn’t, here is an interesting paragraph: “Mr. Hastings doesn’t intend to draw a definitive, composite portrait of the true warrior-in an afterword he notes that he chose his subjects merely ‘to reflect a range of military experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ – but a portrait emerges nonetheless. Ambition drives most first-rate combat soldiers, often coupled with anger, itself usually the product of a rough youth. Such men crave success. When they get it, though, they may not enjoy it: The fear and resentment of their comrades serve to reinforce their chronic sense of loneliness.” Sounds like Richard Sharpe to me! Best wishes for continued good health and many more great stories. Roberta Parker