We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Harold G. Moore - ISBN: 9780679411581
Hardcover
Vietnam battle: outnumbered soldiers’ inspiring, devastating story of courage.

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young

Ia Drang : the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

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  • Hardcover

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 1992

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Summary

Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant’s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Once … and Young.

In November 1965, some 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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679411581
ISBN-10:0679411585
Author:Harold G. Moore, General Ha Moore
Publisher:Random House
Imprint:Random House USA Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:432
Edition:0002nd
Release Date:1 November 1992
Weight:726g
Dimensions:241mm x 164mm x 36mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A GUT-WRENCHING ACCOUNT OF WHAT WAR IS REALLY ALL ABOUT, which should be ‘must’ reading for all Americans, especially those who have been led to believe that war is some kind of Nintendo game.”
-GENERAL H. NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

“Hal Moore and Joe Galloway have captured the terror and exhilaration, the comradeship and self-sacrifice, the brutality and compassion that are the dark heart of war.”
-NEIL SHEEHAN, author of “A Bright Shining Lie”

“A powerful and epic story … This is 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, author of the bestseller “About Face”


“From the Trade Paperback edition.”

About The Author

Harold G. Moore

Harold G. Moore was born in Kentucky and 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. He retired from the Army in 1977 with thirty-two years’ service and then was executive vice president of a Colorado ski resort for four years before founding a computer software company. An avid outdoorsman, Moore and his wife, Julie, divide their time between homes in Auburn, Alabama, and Crested Butte, Colorado.

Joseph L. 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. Now a senior writer with U.S. News & World Report, he covered the Gulf War and coauthored Triumph Without Victory- The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War. Galloway lives with his wife, Theresa, and sons, Lee and Joshua, on a farm in northern Virginia.

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