Lecture Series: Something Like Treason

Something Like Treason is the true story of a group of misfit U.S. soldiers who, abused and alienated, aimed to disrupt the domestic American war effort in 1944. Their posting was at Colorado’s Camp Hale, amid the 7th Mountain Division and some 200 German POWs stockaded there.

Bill Sonn will discuss these misfits’ adventures. Their leader talked treason, deserted with two escaped German prisoners, was caught in northern Mexico, court-martialed and then sentenced to hang. Ten years later, he and his confederates at Camp Hale were all successful businessmen.

Following the program, the audience is invited to patriciate in a Q&A with the presenter. The program will conclude with a book sale and signing.

About the presenter:

Bill Sonn returned to writing after leaving a long and successful career in news and healthcare marketing. He lives in Denver with his wife, Edie, and somewhere equidistant from his two grown daughters and their families. When starting out as a journalist, his reporting appeared in many national and regional publications (e.g., Outside, Chicago Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review). He co-founded a news and then printing company soon thereafter. The final scene in his first book “Paradigms Lost: the life and deaths of the printed word” (2006) took place at what used to be the Union Printers home in Colorado Springs just before the last century and the printers’ era ended.