Hello again, Mr. Cornwell. You are perhaps aware of the literary genre of “alternate history?” This is where an author chooses a significant historical event and asks “how would history have changed if this one event happened differently?” The author then writes a ficticious history of the subsequent events. Newt Gengrich has just completed a trilogy on the second half of the American Civil War and how it would have turned out differently if Lee had won at Gettysburg. I think you would be great at an alternate history novel. You should ask “What would have happened if Napoleon had succeeded in invading England in 1805?” Could the English have stopped the Grande Armee on their home turf? Please think about this one. Maybe some day? Alan Kempner