
Galloway (Author) Joe Galloway is a native Texan. Hal was the Battalion Commander on the ground and Joe was a UPI correspondent. The book covers the first major battle of the Vietnam War, the Ia Drang Battle, in which both men participated. 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. Read more Executive Vice President of the Crested Butte Ski Area in Crested Butte, CO.

After his retirement from active duty in 1977, Hal became the. Commissioned a 2nd Lt of Infantry in 1945, he served and commanded at all levels from Platoon through Division. Moore retired from the Army as a 3 Star General in 1977 with over 32 years active service.

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. 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. How these men persevered - how they sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up - is both inspiring and devastating. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Read more a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley.

Hal Moore, were dropped by helicopter into. 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. and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book. 'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American.

Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations, maps, portraits. This is the true story of 450 US soldiers, early in the Vietnam War, who found themselves surrounded by 2000 North Vietnamese regulars in the Ia Dang Valley, in what became the first major battle of the extended conflict. Description for We Were Soldiers Once.and Young Paperback.
