We Were Soldiers Once...And Young
  • Published: 5 April 2002
  • ISBN: 9780552150262
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $35.00
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We Were Soldiers Once...And Young

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The defining moment of the Vietnam war when the American dream of a quick victory died - hard.

'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured the terror and exhilaration, the comradeship and self-sacrifice, the brutality and compassion that are the dark heart of war' THE TIMES

THE MUST READ CLASSIC OF THE VIETNAM WAR

In November 1965, 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt.Col. Hal Moore, 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 most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. How these men persevered - how they sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up - is both inspiring and devastating.

General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of the men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders, to present a picture of soldiers facing the sort of brutal challenge they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier.

It is a spellbinding true portrait of warfare at its most visceral and desperate, which reveals to us, as rarely before, the extraordinary resources man can summon in the darkest of hours.
  • Published: 5 April 2002
  • ISBN: 9780552150262
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the authors

Harold G Moore

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore retired from the Army as a 3 Star General in 1977 with over 32 years active service. Commissioned a 2nd Lt of Infantry in 1945, he served and commanded at all levels from Platoon through Division. After his retirement from active duty in 1977, Hal became the Executive Vice President of the Crested Butte Ski Area in Crested Butte, CO. During the '80s and early '90s, he researched and wrote a book, We Were Soldiers Once...and Young with his co-author, Joe Galloway then of US News and World Report. The book covers the first major battle of the Vietnam War, the Ia Drang Battle, in which both men participated. Hal was the Battalion Commander on the ground and Joe was a UPI correspondent.

Joseph L. Galloway

Joe Galloway is a native Texan. At seventeen, he was a reporter on a daily newspaper, at nineteen a bureau chief for United Press International. he spent fifteen years as a foreign and war correspondent based in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Singapore, and the Soviet Union. After UPI service in Los Angeles, he spent several years as a feature and Senior Writer in Washington, DC with US News and World Report.

Praise for We Were Soldiers Once...And Young

Between experiencing combat and reading about it lies a vast chasm. This book makes you almost smell it

Wall Street Journal

A stunning achievement... I read it and thought of The Red Badge of Courage, the highest compliment I can think of

David Halberstam

The best account of infantry combat I have ever read, and the most significant book to come out of the Vietnam War

Colonel David Hackworth

A gut-wrenching account of what war is really about... A great book of military history

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. Moore and Galloway have captured the terror and exhilaration, the comradeship and self-sacrifice, the brutality and compassion that are the dark heart of war

The Times

There are stories here that freeze the blood... The men who fought at Ia Drang could have no finer memorial

The New York Times Book Review

If you want to know what it was like to go to Vietnam, then you must read this book

Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie
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