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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
 
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

by Harold G. Moore
Product Group: Book
Publisher: HarperTorch (2002-02-01)
ISBN: 0060506989
EAN: 9780060506988
Binding/Media: Mass Market Paperback - 560 pages
Release Date: 2002-02-05
SKU: 655
Condition: Collectable Very Good
Comments: PAPERBACK BOOK AND PAGES ARE GREAT CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. EARLY PRINT. SHIPS RAPIDLY BY EXPEDITED AND BY 1ST CLASS. PRIORITY AIR MAIL.

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the la 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 events constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. Told by the commander of the battalion and the only journalist on the ground through the fighting, this is the devastating, yet inspiring, story of those soldiers who sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up.
Amazon.com Review
In the first significant engagement between American troops and the Viet Cong, 450 U.S. soldiers found themselves surrounded and outnumbered by their enemy. This book tells the story of how they battled between October 23 and November 26, 1965. Its prose is gritty, not artful, delivering a powerful punch of here-and-now descriptions that could only have been written by people actually on the scene. In fact, they were: Harold Moore commanded the men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, who did most of the fighting, and Joseph Galloway was the only reporter present throughout the battle's 34 harrowing days. We Were Soldiers Once... combines their memories with more than 100 in-depth interviews with survivors on both sides. The Battle of Ia Drang also highlights a technological advance that would play an enormous role in the rest of the war: this was perhaps the first place where helicopter-based, air-mobile operations demonstrated their combat potential. At bottom, however, this is a tale of heroes and heroism, some acts writ large, others probably forgotten but for this telling. It was a bestseller when first published, and remains one of the better books available on combat during the Vietnam War. --John J. Miller
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