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"That's a necessity of writing novels. Sharpe has to
have enemies on his own side because they're the
people he's closest to. If his enemy is on the other side then he's hardly ever going to
meet him. So the
villains are almost always English just because Sharpe is English. In the Peninsular War,
of course,
there are French villains, but Sharpe obviously is not going to spend that much time with
the French,
he's going to spend much more time with the British, so the villains are going to come
from the British
side."
