Roderic SchmidtRoderic Schmidt, presently an English instructor at Allan Hancock, has been writing for some thirty years. He has taught English in both high school and college for some fifty years. Battlefields is his seventh novel, and its genesis was the PTSD expriences that he learned of in discussions with his students, young men returning from the battlefields of Iraq. While the novel is just that, a work of fiction, its underlying themes reflect the realities of today's social dilemmas. Schmidt is currently working on his collection of short stories. Read More Read Less