Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one
book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by
all Marines. The Commandant''s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers
Once . . . and Young.
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.
關於作者：
Harold G. Moore was born in Kentucky and is a West Point
graduate, a master parachutist, and an Army aviator. He 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 and then was executive vice president of
a Colorado ski resort for four years before founding a computer
software company. An avid outdoorsman, Moore and his wife, Julie,
divide their time between homes in Auburn, Alabama, and Crested
Butte, Colorado.
Joseph L. Galloway is a native Texan. At seventeen he was a
reporter on a daily newspaper, at nineteen a bureau chief for
United Press International. He spent fifteen years as a foreign and
war correspondent based in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India,
Singapore, and the Soviet Union. Now a senior writer with U.S.
News World Report, he covered the Gulf War and coauthored
Triumph Without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian
Gulf War. Galloway lives with his wife, Theresa, and
sons, Lee and Joshua, on a farm in northern Virginia. .
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