Cornwell's best known books feature the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars.
It has been asserted [unattributed] that Cornwell was initially dubious about the casting of Sean Bean for the television adaptations.
The title character, Nathaniel Starbuck, is a Northerner who has decided to fight for the South in a Virginian regiment, the Faulconer Legion.
The series posits that Post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West.
At the same time, they suffered internal power struggles between their petty kingdoms and friction between the old Druidic religion and newly arrived Christianity.
[6] Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles September 2014 ISBN 000753938X / 9780007539383 (UK edition) Publisher William Collins