What a joy to find this website. I stumbled into your books in the library perusing and my son and I have become addicted. We love Uhtred and anxiously await publication in America of Sword Song. Meantime we amuse ourselves with Sharpe. Hmm…getting the books from our small library the number of Sharpe books outnumbered the others. But I find we must borrow from county for the majority there are so many! Being that we must return them, we go by memory here but have some questions and observations. We are just now on Eagle, which arrived from county in rather tattered form so I knew immediately it was OLD. Now I see it was first. I see on this site you have not re-reread so will warn you may wish to have a new edition. For it says Sharpe has not met Daddy Hill here, but Daddy Hill was at that seminary in Havoc and they did brush up against each other. And it says he had never known the challenges of distraction from having a woman on the side. But come now, that reads funny after Astrid, right? This is a different Sharpe that we meet in Eagle…more heads down in those 16 years of career …interesting. Question. If I see those battles at Rollica and Vimeiro mentioned again I may have to go library and study them. It says Sharpe and Wellesly were there, how could there be battles with both there and no book??? Did we miss it, is there a FUTURE book??? I will admit my entire knowledge of military history comes from you, and a good bit of son’s early knowledge. He however is in his first year naval ROTC and I dearly hope he can avoid some hard lessons having read your books. It is striking that while weapons and names change, the war is still about courage to act, keeping troops fed/supplied with the cutting edge stuff and while you can take territory with those things done, without support of the people you cannot hold the soul of a country forever. I hope our Iraq war politician leaders read your books and think about what it will really take to make Iraq strong and independent and an ally. Teresa

I have become concerned that the term “heads down” might be misinterpreted by military people who might construe it as avoiding fire. In my world it is a saying for people so totally focused on their role, their small part of a “war” that they completely impervious to a distraction and potentially the the broader picture. Teresa