Harold G. Moore

Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam

We were soldiers once-- and young

Joseph L. Galloway

New York Times Bestseller: A “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read” (Col. David Hackworth, author of 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.

Ia Drang—The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young

James Paden

This is a fascinating, enthralling, and heartbreaking story. The level of detail, likely there to pay deserved tribute to the individual soldiers involved, distracts from the story as does a lot of mediocre writing - but you should read this book anyway if the description sounds good to you.

Kevin Owens

Michael Cowell

Andrew John Kinney

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Chris Poore

Sara Bean Duncan

Joseph Galloway

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore

A definitive study of the 1965 battle of Ia Drang, in the central highlands of South Vietnam, provides a blow-by-blow account of the battle and the implications of this key confrontation. 30,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam

We Were Soldiers Once -and Young

Lloyd Dalton

We were soldiers once-- and young Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam

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