Written during a nostalgic interval during Cooper's stormy battles with the Whig Press, The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the world-famous Leatherstocking Tales in point of composition, though first in the biographical sequence.
The novel does not offer a classic plot with a clear beginning and end, but rather acts as a series of internal images and feelings, further emphasizing the scattered nature of the world it describes.
The last commander of the 68th Battalion, a Vukovar defender, Drago Maksimović, is also the author of the book "Breviary of Hopelessness", which talks about the problems of the defenders after the Homeland War.