Mr. Cornwell, I’m in the process of reading “Waterloo”, and I have to say that so far it is simply spectacular and riveting! The very best of the Sharp series! Recently I bought and watched the short film “Sharpe’s Battle”, which was based upon your novel of the same name (another magnificent addition to the Sharpe series, especially on how you describe the fearsome fighting qualities of the 88th!). I couldn’t help notice how much the film deviated from the novel in the sense that much of the plot and the story line was different in many respects and in many ways. I’m not saying that the film was bad, just that it didn’t hold true to the book to the extent that it should have. Did you get a chance to watch that film (Sharpe’s Battle), and if you did do you have any sour feelings or regrets as to how the material actually unfolded and deviated from the book as it appeared onscreen? For I thought the film could’ve been much better, especially considering that they left out the ridge at Fuentes de Onoro where the 88th routed the elite French Grenadiers at the tip of their bayonets. Yours truly, Taylor “Irish” Ahern, from Squantum (Quincy!), Massachusetts