Dear Bernard, In regards to the next book being about Poitiers. This will be the 5th book on the 100 years war so I wondered if you will ever write about one of your charachters going up against Joan of Arc. As Napoleon was to the Napoleonic wars she is the most famous person of that war and it would be like you writing the Sharpe series but missing fighting Napoleon himself! Also would you say she deserves her reputation as the person who turned the tide from French defeats to victories? Finally with the War of 1812 anniversary coming up you might like this link on a real life Sharpe figure (or maybe Harper is more accurate as he is Irish) of James Fitzgibbon who formed the bloody boys and won the battle of Beaver Dams http://www.eighteentwelve.ca/?q=eng/Topic/80&img=3
Geraint