Hi again Bernard! Firstly, many thanks for the answer to my previous questions, it’s really very good of you to take the time when you must be so busy. Anyway, I’m going to impose again! I was thinking about the amount of research you must do for every book that’s published and thinking that, although some must be fairly mundane, such as checking dates and spellings for place names etc, some must be quite surprising or even shocking. An example of one of the many things in your books that has come as a surprise to me was the fact that more French were killed by Partisans in the Iberian Peninsula than by the army – remarkable unless you know! I then wondered which facts came as the biggest surprise to you in any of your books? And have you ever had to drastically rethink or even abandon a book idea because the research has blown holes in the initial premise?

Richard Foskett