Mr Cornwell, I’m very happy to know you. I’m a great fun of Sharpe’s series though the difficulties to find your books translate in Italian (Amazon.co.uk thanks you to improve their sells). So i thank you very much for your free English lesson (however I’d point out that the slang words used by Harper of Sharpe are no so easy to find in a dictionary ..). Apart of this, i really admire the way you mix history and fiction. I bought Peninsular War of David Gates and I appreciated the accuracy and precision of the military warfare you wrote. It’s very interesting the description of the English high society of those Ages (only ?). I have only two last questions for you: 1) Why do you accept the ridiculous reproduction made by BBC of your stories ? i asked you this because, as usually happened when TV makes history fiction (es. Napoleon), the shrunk money of the production don’t allow to reproduce in total faithfully a great battle or a siege of a great fortress ? 2) Why when you wrote Sharpe’s Fortress in 1999 you killed Hackswill’s character (Sharpe put him naked in a hole with poisonous snakes) when in 1982 in Sharpe’s Fury you had included his character again? Thanks in advance for your reply Have you a good time Stefano