I enjoy historical fiction, and I find historical novels based on real people particularly fascinating. I am not an author, but I think it would be difficult to imagine possible thoughts, actions and events and weave them together with the actual circumstances of a person's life. In his most recent novel, Robert Hicks composes the story of the infamous Confederate General John Bell Hood and his life following the Civil War in a suspenseful and complicated tale of love and redemption. A Separate Country begins at the end of General Hood's life, as he is dying of yellow fever. Mr. Hicks takes the reader back in time through the journals of General Hood and his wife Anna Marie. The journals begin with Hood moving to New Orleans to begin ...

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