I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your books, particularly the Warlord trilogy, and the Saxon novels. Out of interest, why do you think the longbow went out of fashion in England? In battle, thanks to the longbow, the English seem to have been pretty well invincible for most of the Hundred Years War; even when the French regained territory, they rarely managed to beat the English in a pitched battle. Up till about 1880, there was no projectile weapon that could fire as fast, as far, and as accurately, as the longbow. Handguns were incredibly primitive, in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, so why did they replace what was plainly the more effective weapon? Sean Fear