Montana military history authors traveling state to discuss their new book, 'Battle of the Bulge: A Montana Perspective'

Two of Montana’s many veterans, Randy LeCocq and John Driscoll, military history authors, will be travelling around Big Sky Country promoting their new book, The Battle of the Bulge: A Montana perspective. 

LaCocq and Driscoll will be making their presentations in the public libraries at Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Glasgow, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell, Miles City and Missoula, between November 7, the day following Election Day, and November 20, two days before Thanksgiving Day. Local details are being released by each Library.

The Battle of the Bulge cost the lives of more than 25,000 U.S. soldiers, as they defeated the last German strategic offensive of World War II.

The two Montana writers walked and rode the critical sectors of the battlefield, including Elsenborn Ridge, Malmedy, St. Vith and Bastogne.

here will be a general discussion of The Battle of the Bulge: A Montana Perspective, in which they tried to convey how our soldiers stopped a surprise steamroller attack, while operating in freezing conditions with enormous casualties, outnumbered at the points of attack by five to ten times their own strength. 

They have gathered first impressions in the deep snow of winter, similar to the conditions during the actual fighting, and they have located the actions of some Montanans caught up in the fighting. Hopefully, the relatives of other Montanans who did the fighting will come to one of the library presentations for the hour of discussion following each informal presentation.

New names will be integrated into a second edition to be printed by the epic confrontation’s 75th Anniversary, December 16, 2019.

Persons with relevant information, but not able to attend, may contact Randy and John at [email protected] or the Montana Military Museum, PO Box 125, Fort Harrison, Montana 59636. Their website is http://www.montanamilitarymuseum.org. Telephone number is 406-235-0290.