Dear Mr Cornwell,
I am perplexed by the way tenses change in your Waterloo book and wonder what you were trying to achieve. What should I make of a sentence (p. 218) that reads ‘The Duke knew the Prussians were coming, he would never have offered battle otherwise, but as his army is worn down and the fighting goes on, he knows he needs …’ ? I find the need to supply corrections so stop the flipping from past to present a blight in what is otherwise a very interesting book.
Paul