Like Hitler, Featherston wrote a book expressing his political and racial views called "Over Open Sights", an analog to "Mein Kampf". The title of the book is a reference to Featherston's career as an artillery sergeant. Featherston started writing this book back during the defeat of the Confederate States of America in the Great War of 1914–1917. His embitterment over his lack of promotion, coupled with his resentment in the general atmosphere of defeat and his view that the CSA's blacks had "stabbed the country in the back," is spoken clearly in the novel. It was published just prior to the Second Great War. While most Confederates bought the book, many characters remarked there wasn't anything different than what they had heard already from Featherston's radio broadcasts.