We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

The New York Times bestseller and the basis for the major motion picture We Were Soldiers: "The best account of infantry combat I have ever read." -Col. David Hackworth, author of About Face

In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped 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 ba...