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    We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
    We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
    We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
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    We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

    Written by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

    Narrated by Jonathan Davis

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    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.

    How these men persevered-sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up-makes a vivid portrait of war at its most inspiring and devastating. General Moore and Joseph Galloway, the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting, have interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, including the North Vietnamese commanders. This devastating account rises above the specific ordeal it chronicles to present a picture of men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have found unimaginable only a few hours earlier. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man's most heroic and horrendous endeavor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781977375032
    We Were Soldiers Once… and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

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    • 5/5
      As a veteran of the Army of the Vietnam era, and as one who by God’s grace spared me from having to fight in Vietnam, i have always been curious about what if God had not spared me of that awful experience and somehow i had survived. I was drawn to this beautifully written, if disturbing, tale of the war’s first and ironically, its most deadly battle of a ten year tragic mistake of Vietnam, not of soldiering but of political irresponsibility, only recently as i embraced with sadness, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 opening salvo in the war on terrorism. If you read only two chapters of this sad memoir be sure to read Chapter 26, Reflections and Perceptions and the Epilogue. They define the era and the tragedy of the Vietnam era like no other.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the best books I’ve ever read on war. Is heart wrenching and incredible to see the limits that we can achieve in the most horrible situations.
    • 3/5
      The narrator habitually mispronounces names and common words. If this bothers you, you might consider a different book. As this is the only version of WWS on either Scribd or Audible, you might have other option that to persevere.