We Were Soldiers Once...and Young

by Moore, Harold G.; Galloway, Joseph L.

• ISBN13: 9780060506988
• ISBN10: 0060506989
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

<p align="justify">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.</p>

Author Biography

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 and World Report, he covered the Gulf War and coauthored Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
Going to War
Heat of Battle	p. 9
The Roots of Conflict	p. 16
Boots and Saddles	p. 44
The Land and the Enemy	p. 58
X-Ray
Into the Valley	p. 73
The Battle Begins	p. 86
Closing with the Enemy	p. 101
The Storm of Battle	p. 121
Brave Aviators	p. 139
Fix Bayonets!	p. 156
Night Falls	p. 174
A Dawn Attack	p. 188
Friendly Fire	p. 205
Rescuing the Lost Platoon	p. 221
Night Fighters	p. 235
Policing the Battlefield	p. 249
It Ain't Over Till It's Over	p. 262
Albany
A Walk in the Sun	p. 277
Hell in a Very Small Place	p. 296
Death in the Tall Grass	p. 321
Escape and Evade	p. 344
Night without End	p. 356
The Sergeant and the Ghost	p. 375
Aftermath
Mentioned in Dispatches	p. 391
"The Secretary of the Army Regrets..."	p. 413
Reflections and Perceptions	p. 434
Epilogue	p. 444
Where Have All the Young Men Gone?	p. 447
Acknowledgments	p. 471
Interviews and Statements	p. 476
Chapter Notes	p. 480
Selected Bibliography	p. 513
Index	p. 519
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