The New York Times bestseller, hailed as a “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read, and the most significant book to come out of the Vietnam War” by Col. David Hackworth, author of the bestseller About Face
In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped 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 brutally slaughtered. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. They were the first major engagements between the US Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam.
How these Americans persevered—sacrificing themselves for their comrades and never giving up—creates a vivid portrait of war at its most devastating and inspiring. Lt. Gen. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway—the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting—interviewed hundreds of men who fought in the battle, including the North Vietnamese commanders. Their poignant account rises above the ordeal it chronicles to depict men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have once found unimaginable. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man’s most heroic and horrendous endeavor.
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Summary
Overall We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt. General Hal Moore and Joseph Galloway 1992 345 pages Written about a forgotten (to most of us who were very young or not yetborn)battle back in 1965 in Viet Nam this book is very well written. It tells a story as compelling as any great novel that you read. 450 men of the US 7th Cavalry (not horses, helicopters) are landed in a valley and quickly surrounded by over 2,000 North Vietnamese Soldiers. One of the comments written by General Norman Schwarzkpof on the jacket of the book says a lot about it...\" It is a gutwrenching account of what a war is really about, which should be a must read for all Americans, especially those who have been led to believe that war is some kind of Nintendo game\" I met Hal Moore at a meeting about 8 years ago and I won't ever forget his stories. You should read the book then see the movie...both well worth it.
Violence The violence of this battle is intense.