In A Man Under Authority, his first novel, Reid Mitchell introduces us to a retired "enemy" colonel who is hired as a consultant by an American movie director. In his assignment, the colonel is forced to confront his own past while we the readers mus...
The soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were united by a common history, and yet the legacy of this past was ambiguous, upholding both rebellion and union. Union and Confederate men went to war as Americans, convinced they fought an un-American, ...