We Were Soldiers Once and Young

"If you want to know what it was like to go to Vietnam as a young American...and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then you must read this book...a minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour account of the opening battle of the war that reads with the mesmerizing swiftness of combat. Hal Moore and Joe Gallaway have captured the terror and exhilaration, the comradeship and self-sacrifice, the brutality and compassion that are the dark heart of war."
480 pgs.