When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945. This item is unavailable.When the Odds Were Even: The Vosges Mountains Campaign, October 1944-January 1945

October 1944: Allied forces are poised for the plunge into Germany itself. The Wehrmacht is reeling, but as the German Army's lines are broken, defenses in the rugged Vosges Mountains of Northeast France stiffen. Critics of American tactics and training have long maintained that the American soldier was no match for Hitler's Aryan superman. Author Bonn refutes this claim and shows that the American GI was much more than a match for the vaunted German soldier, even without the aid of air support and massed armour formations. Despite terrible climactic conditions, and fighting on terrain that clearly favoured the numerically superior defender, the US soldiers were able to overcome Hitler's legions.

Keith E. Bonn is a retired US Army infantryman. A master parachutist and ranger, he served in various command and staff assignments in the continental US and Korea, as well as a joint assignment in Central America. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. Since his retirement from active duty, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of The Aberjona Press, a small publishing company specializing in World War II historical literature. The son, grandson, and great grandson of NCOs, he is the also the author of several books of professional military topics. Bonn resides with his wife and two children in south central Pennsylvania.