We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young : The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
Author(s): Harold G. Moore
SECONDHAND BOOKS | MILITARY HISTORY
Vietnam. November 1965. 450 men of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, are dropped by helicopter into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley and immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion is chopped to pieces in a similarly brutal manner. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constitute one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War and set the tone of the conflict to come.Now a major motion picture starring Mel Gibson
2002. A very good copy in lightly creased wraps and with light age tanning to the pages.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.41
- : February 2002
- : 3.3 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations, maps, portraits
- : 529
- : good
- : 959.7043373
- : English
- : New edition
- : Paperback
- : Harold G. Moore