Hello,

I’m french and I’m reading with great pleasure your Sharpe’s serie.

I just close Sharpe’s Gold and as you probably know, France is about to commemorate (celebrate ?) the bicentennial of Napoleon’s death.

In Sharpe’s Gold, you describe the war crimes perpetrated by french army during the peninsular war. I’d simply like to know on which sources you rely about this ? Were those crimes isolated “accident” or were they planned on a large scale as a terror politic ?

My question is not motivated by chauvinism (I’m the least chauvinist man you could imagine as far as it doesn’t come to food and drink), but this anniversary is more and more controversial as the time comes near. Especially as politicians spend much time rewriting History to fit their very present goals. So I think it’s important to know about it.

Regards,

Samuel