We Were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang The Battle That Changed War in

The powerful account of one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War, selected by the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant as required reading for all Marines in 1993. In November 1965, Lt. Col. Hal Moore led 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry into the Ia Drang Valley, where they faced 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, a sister battalion suffered devastating losses just two and a half miles away. General Moore and journalist Joseph Galloway, the only reporter present throughout the fighting, interviewed hundreds of participants to create this vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating.