Dear Mr. Cornwell, I wanted to first say off I first heard of you through watching the Sharpe’s series while I was deployed to Iraq, after that I read the books and it they made me see a lot of myself in the enlisted Sharpe. But what hit me best was when I saw your name on the Saxon series books. I just can’t put them down and most of the time I find myself reading them over and over waiting on the next one. It’s quite pleasing to find that a lot of things in the life of a soldier haven’t changed. These books made me realize that. Now if we could only get the Saxon series made into movies, haha. I would just like to ask if the shield walls are based off of the phalaynx formations. Drew Fesmire