Mr. Cornwell, I wanted to write you and say that I have never been as spellbound with a set of books as I was with your Warlord Cronicles. It instilled a more profound interest in that specific period in english history than I have ever felt before, and I feel compelled to ask you one question for a visualization clarification. I always had trouble understanding the exact logistics of the contact of two largely spear armed units. There is a very clear description of what happens from the general’s perspective, in the middle of the line, but the flanks are what elude me. When two spear armed units smash into each other, should the men be trying to hold their ranks as strictly as possible so that an observer on a hill would see two rectangles hitting each other, or would men on the flanks be tempted to run to the side of their partners to get at enemies so that the two forces would start to resemble two triangles hitting each other, with the most force being in the center where there are the most men still in ranks? I understand that this question might be rather hard to actually know, I just thought that I would ask the most approachable source that certainly would have more information on the subject than would I. Thanks so much for your time and your books especially! Grayson Brill