TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harold G.Moore
TI  - We Were Soldiers Once...and Young
SN  - 9780060506988
AV  - DS557.8.I18 
U1  - 959.704342 
PB  - HarperTorch
KW  - War
KW  - History - Asia
N2  - In November 1965, some 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the la 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 events constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. Told by the commander of the battalion and the only journalist on the ground through the fighting, this is the devastating, yet inspiring, story of those soldiers who sacrificed themselves for their comrades and never gave up
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