Dear Bernard After listening to your interview on NPR and your comments about Alfred probably deserving the title great I wondered whether you thought any other kings like say Edward 1st deserved it too???

Also you are resisting the temptation to do Vernuil. Well please let me say I hope you change your mind it was dubbed the second Agincourt and was a much tougher fight than Poitiers due to deploying veteran scottish archers and fighters in that battle.

Finally although you have said you will not get Sharpe (he would have a great time at Chryslers Farm in JMO) to the war of 1812 Please would you ever consider at least a one off stand alone story on Issac Brock he was very good. Yours sincerely Geraint