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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

by Joseph L. Galloway and Harold G. Moore
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/06/2004

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In November 1965, the air mobile 1st Cavalry Division, led by Lt. Col. Moore and accompanied by reporter Galloway, landed in a remote valley in the central highlands of South Vietnam--and were met by 3,000 seasoned North Vietnamese Regulars. Today, the Ia Drang battle is taught at the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, and the Army, Navy, and Air Force war colleges.

*A moving account of one of Vietnam's most savage battles
*A tale of endurance, self-sacrifice and friendship
*Based on hundreds of interviews of men who fought there,
including North Vietnamese commanders

`A gut-wrenching account of what war is really about, which should be a"must" read' - General Norman Schwarzkopf

`Between experiencing combat and reading about it lies a vast chasm. But this book makes you almost smell it' - Wall Street Journal

`There are stories here that freeze the blood . . . The men who fought at Ia Drang could have no finer memorial' - New York Times Book Review

In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under Lt. Col. Hal Moore's command, were dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the Vietnam War's most significant battles.

How these men persevered makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This dramatic account presents a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge and dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.

HAROLD G. MOORE is a West Point graduate, a master parachutist, and an Army aviator. He commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam.

JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY spent fifteen years as a foreign and war correspondent based in the Far East and the Soviet Union. Now a senior writer with US News& World Report, he covered the Gulf War and co-authored Triumph without Victory.
ISBN:
9780345472649
9780345472649
Category:
Vietnam War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-06-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Presidio Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
480
Dimensions (mm):
184x106x28mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Joseph L. Galloway

Joseph L. Galloway served four tours as a war correspondent in Vietnam and twenty years as a senior editor and writer for U.S. News & World Report. He is coauthor, with the late Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of the film starring Mel Gibson, and of the bestselling sequel, We Are Soldiers Still. Galloway was decorated with a Bronze Star Medal, the only medal of valor the U.S. Army awarded to a civilian in the Vietnam War. He lives in Concord, NC, with his wife, Dr. Grace Liem Galloway.

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