Dear Mr Cornwell Did you realise that in one of your short stories of Sharpe you state that he got his breeches from a French Imperial guard Colonel de’l’Eclin with his sword that he got from Captain John Murray, but in Rifles Sharpe is near death from the Colonel’s carbine before a shot from Harper’s rifle placed the Colonel on the KIA List. Is this an error?

Would you ever consider writing books about the following military era’s: William the Conqueror Henry V Robert Bruce Brian Boru of Ireland, the ancestor of the lalte Queen Mother and the late George VI who united all Irish clans to destroy the Viking influence of Ireland in the early 1000’s. Jacobite-Williamite Wars the 1798 rebellion of Ireland where the French tried to invade Ireland four times and only two succeded. Rorke’s Drift and Isandhlwana 1879 (Just watch Zulu and Zulu Dawn over and over) You could even do a book about the Roman conquest of Britain or would that spoil your Arthur books which by the way were absolutely excellent. You surely have a brain in your head sir. Bismarck’s Invasion of France in 1870. WW1 TRENCHES ANY WAY, ANYTHING YOU WRITE IS more than GOOD. Hope the paternal mystery of Sharpe will soon be written and published so I can be the first paddy to buy it and finally get that mystery out of my mind.Thanks Colum