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

Harold G. Moore · Joseph L. Galloway

Apr 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Jonathan Davis

About this audiobook

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.

Ratings and reviews

I am giving this audiobook a bad rating for one specific reason. Not because I think the story is bad because it's a very moving story about our veterans. I'm rating this poorly because of the narration. The person who read this book mispronounced a lot of words in this book including the name of where the battle took place. It's pronounced EYE-Drang Valley not EE-UH-Drang Valley. He also mispronounced a deceased veteran's name. That's disrespectful.

Awesome read a true story and tough battle for the men that fought it, my cousin willard Parish was there, god bless him

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About the author

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) was a master parachutist and Army aviator who commanded two infantry companies in the Korean War and was a battalion and brigade commander in Vietnam. He retired from the Army in 1977 with thirty-two years' service.

Joseph L. Galloway is coauthor, with Harold G. Moore, of We Are Soldiers Still. Galloway spent twenty-two years as a foreign and war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, and nearly twenty years as a senior editor for U.S. News & World Report.

Jonathan Davis, a three-time recipient and fourteen-time nominee of the Audie Award, has earned accolades for his narration from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, the Audio Publishers Association, AudioFile magazine, and USA Today. Jonathan was recently inducted into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.