I enjoyed your Sharpe books and also the recent book about the Dane invasion of England. My question about Sharpe: Is it your view of history that Sharpe’s morales were typical of a soldier of that era? He seems rather ruthless when compared to other officers of that distant innocent age. I know he has to be hard enough to take on your hard guys like the French Colonel who liked to torture. Napoleon did not seem to be such an evil guy that he would use tools like your Colonel…I am thinking of his relationship with the English toddler on St. Helena. After all he did not seem to go in for genocide like some other tyrants I could name…Tammurlane, Hitler, Stalin and even Richard the Lionheart. Bob Long