Dear Mr. Cornwell, I am currently reading “Stonehenge” (actually listening to it on tape) and am a bit troubled by some of your historical choices. From what I have read, there is fairly scant evidence of regular human sacrifice in 2000 BCE and certainly not on the scale that you describe. Am I missing some reliable scholarship? Similiarly, most human sacrifice (wherever it was practiced), as I’m sure you’re aware, had some social value (getting rid of the weak, or one’s enemies (if you were Aztec), etc.) and I can see none in sacrificing prime breeding stock. Besides wanting to give the best to the Gods, what compelled you to choose this? While I disagree strongly with some of your choices, it certainly is a ripping good yarn, and I will read your Arthur series when I have finished Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy (plus her recent fourth book) as well as the original Morte D’Arthur. Cheers and thanks! Stephan Collins