Dear Bernard, after noticing that you grew up in Essex and that you are writing about the Vikings would a novel on the battle of Maldon ever be in the works?????

And in regards to Sharpe. Will Sharpe get to Albuera it was the first geunine Allied victory of British/Spanish and Portugese all figthing side by side as well as the most vicious and at Albuera it’s said the French used Napoleon’s famed mixed order of both coloum and line. I wondered if there were any other peninsular battles that it was used???

btw I can recommend the new book 1715 on the Jacobite rebellion of that time as worth a read and wondered if you had ever considered the Jacobites at all??? All the best Geraint