Dear Mr. Cornwell. I am a fan of your Sharpe novels for I find a lot of parallels with my daily work in your books (I am a staff officer of the German Army myself). Well, not the heroic stuff, but things like getting sent three cartloads of canteens instead of something useful. When something like this happens to me, it makes me smile, because I always have to think of the sentence: “This Army can´t do anything right.” My question is: Did you make up those logistic inefficiencies or do you happen to have any written evidence? It would be nice to know that nothing has changed over the centuries regarding warfare. Yours sincerely Julia Buthmann