Dear Mr. Cornwell I’ve just finished Waterloo and passed it along to my brother as I have with all your other books. I believe we may be able to shed some light on why your U.S. publisher published it as “Waterloo” rather than “Sharpe’s Waterloo” as it was in England. We think it is a matter of National perspective. In Great Britain I’m sure that Waterloo evokes images of a great victory. In the U.S., since France was our ally at the time of the battle, Waterloo evokes an image of a great defeat, as in the expression “He met his Waterloo”. The title “Sharpe’s Waterloo” then could be interpreted in the U.S. as a humiliating defeat for Sharpe and I’m sure that was not the impression that the publisher wanted readers to have. Steven Hall