Dear Bernhard Cornwell,
For many years I have delighted in your writing. I have all your work on my bookshelves. My enduring favourites are the Sharpe series. As a small boy I was given a toy soldier for my third birthday thus begining a life long love affair. I am presently 72 years old.
At the age of fourteen I came across Georgette Heyer’s book “A Infamous Army”This was my introduction to Wellington and Waterloo. It was the discovery of your Sharpe stories , that are really the history of Wellington’s military career that opened my eyes to the whole Napoleonic History.
I thought I had read the last of Sharpe with your “Sharpe’s Waterloo”, so it was with great joy I unwrapped my wife’s Xmas present to me and found ” Sharpe’s Assassin ”
It is a fitting end to the saga.
Thank you for all the adventures, but more so, thank you for the History
my very best regards,
Simon Chance,