Gregory Fontenot will discuss his book "Loss and Redemption at St. Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge" during the next Lunch and Learn at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. The program will be at noon on Thursday, Feb. 27 in the Visitors Center Auditorium.
Fontenot closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has done. Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge give short-shrift to the interval during which the German forward progress stopped and the American counterattack began. This narrative centers on the 7th Armored Division for the entire length of the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division and accounting for the reconstitution of the Division while in combat.
Fontenot is a retired U.S. Army colonel who is currently a consultant on threat emulation for Army experimentation and a working historian.