Dear Bernard I hope you are enjoying your holiday in the far east. and if you ever get to the great wall of China it’s worth a look. On another note can you give any clue on what the next project you will be working on after the Sharpe book in the Autum is released??? And after the Barossa book will Sharpe get to Albuera in the next one? I know you have mentioned concerns about time scale but a real life Rifleman from the 5th/60th managed to get to both Fuentes-De Onoro and Albuera so it is possible. And Albuera was the most vicious fight in the enire Peninsular war and speaking from a reader stand point it would be such a shame if you had Sharpe miss it.And unlike Waterloo its more tragic since that settled everything and this settled nothing with the failure of 2nd siege of Badajoz as bad as the first.## btw On a tangent if you have not read it I can reccommend Donald.E.Graves Guns Across the River about the Canadian rebellions in the 1830’s and an attempt to make an Alamo of the North. And since a lot of ex-Napoleonic war soldiers like John Colbourne and war of 1812 soldiers like James Fitzgibbon and Wellington himself took an interest in that war (He got a man promoted at his urging). Have you ever thought of getting Sharpe and a young Patrick Lassan there for a last huzzah. …. Finally although you have so many projects on the go at once I do not know how you manage have you ever thought of the Crimean war and getting Harpers son there. Ian Fletcher and Natalia Ishchenko’s A clash of Empires on the Crimean war is also worth a read. Enjoy the rest of your holiday! Tony