I’ve just finished re-reading all of your “Sharpe’s” books in chronological order, and at the end of “Waterloo” I read in your historical note that the battlefield is apt to mislead one into thinking that it was a French victory. I would like to point out that the same thing has been done here in Canada at the Plains of Abraham battlefield in Quebec, with a huge monument to the losing general, Montcalm, and only a small statue of General James Wolfe. Many of the french tour guides actually claim that it WAS in fact a French victory, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. That, of course, being the fact that Quebec is part of Canada, not the other way around. Maybe it’s a French thing?

I also can’t resist pointing out one small mistake you made in “Sharpe’s Devil”. You say that Sharpe, being on the Espirito Santo is appalled at seeing “his first sea battle”, despite his having been at Trafalgar many years before. Oh well. We all make mistakes. Love your books, and looking forward to acquiring many more of them.

Paul Waters