I have just finished reading Sharpe’s Devil and have now completed the Sharpe Series in roughly chronological order, except for the novella/short stories. Before I go go into “Sharpe Cold Turkey”, I will gather my wits about me for a comment on Sharpe’s Waterloo. I have read numerous books on the battle. I have played Waterloo wargames, both boardgames and computer games. I have never gotton a sense of actually being more “there” than in Sharpe’s Waterloo. The only dynamic that was a tad phoney was Sharpe and Harper ranging across the entire battle field with little to do but snuff the occasional Frenchie. That is, ironically, the chief strength of your book in that we get to view first hand the major events of the day. Alas, now I must curl myself into the fetal position bereft of Richard Sharpe et al. Guy E. Orr