Dear Bernard Dunno if you’ve heard or not but there has been a theft at Hougoumont of the Cross there. Link here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355171/Hougoumont-cross-survived-Battle-Waterloo-stolen.html.

I was curious after doing the Fort do you think you think you will ever write about Sir John Moore and his huge career again? he was almost in as many fights as Sharpe yet his was real!

Also you have long talked about wanting to write about Siege of St Sebastian and although you can’t get Sharpe there what about Fredrickson he was there (he tells Sharpe about it in Sharpe’s Siege) why not do a spin off book with Fredrickson?

Finally I know you have said you are reluctant to go back again but would you ever consider getting Sharpe to meet Davout (battle of Auerstadt) The Iron Marshal arguably Napoleons greatest as well. Yours sincerely, Geraint

P.S I am guessing you’ve already read them but if not Strange Fatality by James Elliot on the Battle of Stoney Creek and Our Friends Beneath the Sands by Martin Windrow on the French Foreign Legion are both worth a read.