Greetings. ‘Been a long time since I wrote asking whether your book that began with Sharpe’s faked hanging somehow was connected with stories of Marshal Ney’s faked execution. Another story. Before I read Azincourt, I finished all four of Conn Iggulden’s books on Caesar. There is a passage in (I think) the fourth book describing a forced march, and how the soldiers urinated and defecated while marching . . . so the men at the end of the march were tramping through a nasty slush by the end of the day. In Azincourt (thank you, amazon.co.uk!), you talk more about soldiers shitting themselves and fighting in their own shit than I have noticed in any of your previous 40+ books. Had you read Iggulden? Was that a spin off on reading him?

Maybe this is elsewhere, but why are your books published several months earlier in UK than in USA? Jim Davidson Lillington, NC