I’ve grown a bit tired of historical fiction set in times when atrocities were committed with characters who are opposed to the atrocities or, in this case, repentant over them. I think they tend to let the whole group off too easily. I recently gave up on a very good series set in WWII Berlin for just this reason.

The truth is the majority of people involved supported these acts and weren’t really sorry about until they got caught. I’d like to see a novel deal with that fact.

But that would be a very dark novel. And it does sound like this one gets closer to what I’m talking about than most do.