Hello Mr Cornwell, I have just finished reading Azincourt and thoroughly enjoyed it.. I had always known the longbow to have been an awesome weapon, and can’t help but smile at the irony that in all probability it was/would have been a more superior weapon than the baker rifle or the musket! do you think that likely? I mean three shots a minute on a good day, against the 15 a minute a longbow could achieve.. wow! it gave me a real chill to imagine the arrow storms at Azincourt raining down on the hapless french! I think the longbow had a better range than black powder weapons (except of course cannons) as well.. I guess though you could train a man to give the enemy the good news with a muskett in a few days, as oppose to ten+ years of training with a longbow.. and don’t suppose you could ever get Sharpe to give up his rifle for a bow.. interesting thought though… thanks again for all your amazing books, James