We were soldiers once -and young : Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam / Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Harold G., 1922-2017.

Contributor:

John Penman Wood Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ia Drang Valley, Battle of, Vietnam, 1965.

Vietnam.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xxi, 483 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First HarperPerennial edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1993.

Summary:

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, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was chopped to pieces. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Random House, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-471).

ISBN:

0060975768

9780060975760

OCLC:

37586027