Thank you for writing the Sharpe series, Mr. Cornwell. I just completed reading it and enjoyed it. I appreciate the effort you put into the historical research to support these books. The most important aspect of these books is how they bring to life the way Napoleonic soldiers lived and fought and how this affected the population unfortunate enough to be caught in the wars. I doubt I could have survived.
I hope you will write a little more about Sharpe. I’d like to know more details about how he went from slums, to enlistment, training, Ghent and then India; about how he achieved his Lieutenancy; and a resolution to his marriage to Jane Gibbons that is fair to Lucille Castineau and brings some of his fortune back to him to support her estate and their children. Maybe a visit to Ireland?
Thanks again.
Robert Lawler