Dear Bernard You have said your next book will be about Poitiers but I wondered if you had ever considered Verneuill which was called the 2nd Agincourt and broke the back of the Franco/Scottish alliance for the rest of the Hundred years war.

Also I have to ask as you have written 2 books on the American Revolution and you have done the research so thought you might know, I was curious why is Tarleton so hated in the US. No other British commander in the AR is so hated as he is whether its the phrase Tarletons quarter (but he did take prisoners though)or films (the Patriot) in which he shoots little children and burns people in churches and even today on history message forums you have people saying he was a war criminal etc yet reading about him he seems simply just a Sharpe like figure who liked a fight nothing more yet he is seen as basically a Nazi with a British accent why is that as no other British commander is that hated. Yours sincerely Geraint

P.S If your looking for a good read can I recommend Death or Victory by Dan Snow on the 1759 siege of Quebec for fact or for fiction Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell on the life Greek general Parmenion.