Dear Mr Cornwell, I would just like to firstly say thankyou for the enjoyable reads you have produced and keep producing and long may they continue. I love all your series of books, however my favourite series is the WarLord Chronicles. A friend advised me to read them when I was sixteen after I struggled to get into The Sharpe books, which I couldn’t understand due to me enjoying the TV Series. I had just read Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and he advised me to read The Warlord Chronicles as a stepping stone between my love of Tolkien’s work and reading yours. I have never looked back since and eagerly await new novels from yourselve be it Sharpe or anyother project. Along with Tolkien you are my favourite author and I cannot wait for the next book in the Saxon Stories. Anyway the reason I am contacting you is I seem to remember quite a few years ago my local newspaper printed an article claiming that Sharpe was based on a soldier buried in our home town of Keighley in West Yorkshire. I was just wondering if there was any truth to this and if so what is the name of the soldier (if it is possible for you to tell me)? Yours sincerely, David Bennett