Hello Mr Cornwell,

Firstly I would like to say thank you for many hours of enjoyable reading. I am always eager to read more of your books and am very close to reading them all. After reading all of the Sharpe books i decided to read around the topic of the 95th and came across a marvelous book by Mark Urban, “Rifles” i am certain you will  have read it. His account of the history of the 95th during the Peninsular Campaign reads very much like a Sharpe adventure.

My question is this, Urban claims that the sword bayonet would be used for many jobs except bayoneting people, claiming the soldiers saw it as a hindrance rather than a killing tool. do you agree with his statement here or do you feel it was used to great effect as a weapon of war?

Many thanks,

Luke Fieldhouse