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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
October 20, 1992

Originally published
  
20 October 1992

Publisher
  
Random House

Adaptations
  
We Were Soldiers (2002)

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Country
  
United States

Subject
  
Vietnam, War

Pages
  
432

Page count
  
432

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Media type
  
Hardcover and Trade Paperback

Authors
  
Hal Moore, Joseph L. Galloway

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We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a 1992 book by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and war journalist Joseph L. Galloway about the Vietnam War. It focuses on the role of the First and Second Battalions of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, the United States' first large-unit battle of the Vietnam War; previous engagements involved small units and patrols (squad, platoon, and company sized units). It was adapted into the 2002 film We Were Soldiers.

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Reception

The book was a New York Times best-seller. David Halberstam called it "A stunning achievement - paper and words with the permanence of marble. I read it and thought of The Red Badge of Courage, the highest compliment I can think of." General H. Norman Schwarzkopf said "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young is a great book of military history, written the way military history should be written."

Editions

  • Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L. Galloway (October 20, 1992). We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Hardcover ed.). Random House Publishing Group. p. 432. ISBN 0679411585.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
  • Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L. Galloway (April 15, 2002). We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Trade Paperback ed.). Harper Perennial. p. 528. ISBN 0060013257.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
  • Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L. Galloway (August 1, 2002). We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Hardcover ed.). Thorndike Press. p. 688. ISBN 078624495X.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
  • Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L. Galloway (June 29, 2004). We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Mass Market Paperback ed.). Random House. p. 535. ISBN 0345472640.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
  • Moore, Harold G. & Galloway, Joseph L. Galloway (November 23, 2004). We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (Trade Paperback ed.). Presidio Press. p. 432. ISBN 034547581X.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)

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