Take your time -- I had that trilogy for well over a year before I read it. I tried a couple of times to get into "The Winter King", and then on the third nibble BAM! I could not stop reading.
I've read the majority of Cornwell's stuff, but his Saxon books -- the first and third, especially -- are my favorites. Cornwell is most known for his Napoleonic war books, though.
Had the wind been blowing in a slightly different direction off the coast of North Africa one fine day in 468, the Western Roman Empire would've survived, and probably for a lot longer. That's one of those tiny changes that I like so much.
Hah! Yeah, there were like, 4 Asian people in our secondary school out of 1,600 or so... I remember when the first and only black kid joined, after 3 years of being there. He left the following year, never to be replaced...
It depends. In formal situations or where I need to introduce them I tend to use their title (such as Prime Minister David Cameron, or President Obama) but in informal situations where their position is known I would probably just call them their name, and from then on only their last.
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