BOOK WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE...AND YOUNG (IA DRANG/VIETNAM) (BOX48

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE.....IA DRANG---THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM

AUTHORS: LT. GEN. HAROLD G. MOORE (RET.) AND JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY

PUBLISHER: A PRESIDIO PRESS BOOK (PUBLISHED BY THE RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP)

COPYRIGHT: 1992 BY LT. GEN. HAROLD G. MOORE AND JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 92-53642

ISBN: 0-345-47581-X

HOUSTON CHRONICLE:   "WHAT THE BOOK DOES BEST IS DESCRIBE THE COURAGE, BUTCHERY, AND REALITIES OF FACE-TO-FACE JUNGLE WARFARE BETWEEN TWO ENEMIES WHO WERE BOTH COMPLETELY DEDICATED, COURAGEOUS, AND NECESSARILY BRUTAL!"

IN NOVEMBER, 1965, SOME 450 MEN OF THE FIRST BATTALION, SEVENTH CALVARY, UNDER THE COMMAND OF LT. COL. HAL MOOER, WERE DROPPED INTO A SMALL CLEARING IN THE IA DRANG VALLEY.  THEY WERE IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDED BY TWO THOUSAND NORHT VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS. THREE DAYS LATER, ONLY TWO AND A HALF MILES AWAY, A SISTER BATTALION WAS MASSACRED.  TOGETHER, THESE ACTIONS CONSTITUTE ONE OF THE MOST SAVAGE AND SIGNIFICANT BATTLES OF THE VIETNAM WAR, ONE IN WHICH AMERICANS FACED WHAT SEEMED TO CERTAIN DESTRUCTION.  MOORE AND JOE GALLOWAY, THE ONLY JOURNALIST ON THE GROUND THROUGHOUT THE FIGHTING, HAVE INTERVIEWED HUNDREDS OF MEN WHO FOUGHT THERE. HOW THESE HEROES PERSEVERED MAKES A VIVID PORTRAIT OF WAR AT THE MOST DEVASTING AND INSPIRING. 

DIRECT QUOTE FROM COLONEL DAVID H. HACKWORTH, U.S. ARMY (RET.)                                 "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."