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<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345472640/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345472640&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e0985038550d22cc5eb2eb140c29734d We Were Soldiers Once and … Young]</i>, Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway (New York, Presido Press, 1992)

We Were Soldiers Once… and Young is a 1992 non-fiction work written by an officer (Moore) and a journalist (Galloway) about one of the key battles of the Vietnam War. The narrative focuses on one of the first set-piece battles of the war. The central events depicted in the work is the Battle of la Drang Valley. The battle saw the 1st and the 2nd battalion of the famous 7th Cavalry Regiment engage with a division of North Vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas. The work describes the brutality of the battle and how the Americans were able to prevail after a vicious battle. It does not hesitate to show that the battle was a bloody affair and shows the suffering of the ordinary soldier. The work also shows that while the battle was a tactical defeat for the Communists they came to believe that they could defeat the US after la Drang. The work was very well received and many critics claimed that it was the finest example of military history written in years. Mel Gibson bought the movie rights for the book and in 2002 he produced and directed a movie based on the work of Moore and Galloway.

[[File: With Lawrence in Arabia (1).jpg |200px|thumb|left| T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia c 1917)]]