Artillery XO...back into the Ia Drang Valley is my story of entering the Vietnam War in January 1966 as a young artillery officer and volunteer. It follows my adventures and experiences with the people I meet through my assignment as an executive officer of a 105mm howitzer battery and a bloody contest with a hard core North Vietnamese unit at the base of Chu Pong Mountain on the Cambodian border, in the same area where the 1st Air Cav became famous in a similar but more prolonged fight six months earlier, now recounted in a popular book "We Were Soldiers...and Young" (Random House 1992)

Softcover: ISBN: 978-1439266618

Bill Richardson relates how Army life was when he served with the 7th Cavalry Regiment as a "Private", "NCO" and "Officer", during WWII. He served twice with the Rigiment between 1940-1945 and again 1946-1947.

His story takes you back to pre WWII army life then follows with the arrival of the Regiment in Australia, the invasion of the Admiralty and Philippine Islands by the Regiment, and the final transfer of the Regiment to Tokyo (Japan) as General MacArthur's Honor guard.

This book is not a novel, its a biography of one of Americas last living horse soldiers. Bill Richardson continues to uphold the Regiment and has served in all elected officers positions of the 7th United States Cavalry Association.

NOTE: This book is not in the public Domain, if you wish to get a copy click on the link below to get details on how to pre order a copy. Supplies are limited.

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On May 5, 1966, George W. Hughes was leading his platoon on a mission to reinforce his fellow soldiers in a Vietnam village. Under fire for more than four hours, he had a decision to make: maintain a tight position with his men grouped together, or disperse them and return enemy fire. His actions that day saved lives and later earned him the prestigious Distinguished Service Cross. But they truly formed over the previous three decades, as Hughes transformed from a wayward young man into a model career soldier and inspiration to us all.

Always a Soldier documents his incredible journey from tenth-grade dropout to decorated 20-year Army man and college graduate. This enlightening memoir spans his impoverished early years during World War II, his initial enlistment in the Army at 17, the formative experiences in training and combat, passage into manhood and the growth of a family. It is a book about courage and succeeding even when you think you can’t, and serving others when most think only of serving themselves. It is, above all, a humorous and honest portrait of a life fully lived, one that proudly retells the good times while not flinching from the bad.

Deftly constructed at 193 pages, Always a Soldier is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the Biography/ Personal Memoirs category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Always a Soldier meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $14.95.

The Author has lived a very exciting and rewarding life and wishes to share it with you. He begins with his childhood memories during World War II . He then covers every assignment in a twenty year military career while serving with many distinguished men. He also provides a view of his retirement years. He was a somewhat delinquent child and didn't find his purpose in life until he joined the military at age seventeen. He served for eight years in the Corps of Engineers as an Enlisted Man and twelve years as an Officer in the Army Infantry. He served two combat tours of duty in Vietnam and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor with the 1/7th Cavalry in 1966. While in the service, he obtained a College Degree in Business Administration and rose to the rank of Major. He made many mistakes (humorous and serious) and hopes that the reader might benefit from them and help him/her to make the proper decisions in life.

Hardcover: ISBN 9780061458989

A long-waited sequel co-authored by famed war reporter Joseph L. Galloway will be arriving in August and has already picked up rave reviews in Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.

A sequel to "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young," and again written with Harold G. Moore, it is titled, "We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam," and will be published by Harper. The first book was made into a film starring Mel Gibson, with Barry Pepper portraying Galloway, who won a Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam.

Galloway retired from McClatchy Newspapers last year after covering at least seven wars, but continues to write a military column.

The Publishers Weekly "starred" review follows.

It would be a monumental task for Moore and Galloway to top their classic 1992 memoir, "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young." But they come close in this sterling sequel, which tells the backstory of two of the Vietnam War's bloodiest battles (in which Moore participated as a lieutenant colonel), their first book and a 1993 ABC-TV documentary that brought them back to the battlefield.

Moore's strong first-person voice reviews the basics of the November 1965 battles, part of the 34-day Battle of the Ia Drang Valley. Among other things, Moore and Galloway (who covered the battle for UPI) offer portraits of two former enemy commanders, generals Nguyen Huu An and Chu Huy Man, whom the authors met-and bonded with-nearly three decades after the battle.

This book proves again that Moore is an exceptionally thoughtful, compassionate and courageous leader (he was one of a handful of army officers who studied the history of the Vietnam wars before he arrived) and a strong voice for reconciliation and for honoring the men with whom he served.

Hardcover: ISBN 9780061458989

For more than a decade, American soldiers fought an unpredictable, unspeakably painful battle in the fields, cities, town, and rivers of Vietnam. Three American presidents held office during that time and thousands upon thousands of lives were lost. The Vietnam War is one of the most heatedly debated conflicts in history. Yet, for the troops who were there, it was an interminable march of long, hot days, filled with destruction, exhaustion, and fear.

We Were There: Vietnam chronicles those long years of war from the perspectives of soldiers who fought in daily battle and the reporters and photographers who recorded events alongside them It includes essays from such literary luminaries as John Steinbeck, and James Jones; accounts from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists David Halberstam, Peter Arnett, and Malcolm Brown; and searing photographs from Pulitzer Prize-winner Horst Fass and others. In its immediacy and intensity, this visual account is unlike any other chronicle of war.

We Were There is a carefully researched collection of words and images that provides a unique view of the Vietnam War; deeply personal memories from those who experienced the agony and profound frustration of the day-to-day conflict firsthand.

Hardcover: Included are Pictures of Ia Drang battle, plus it had Jack Smith's writeup of Albany ISBN 1603760059

Under a full opalescent moon in the spring of 2003, CNN correspondent Walter C. Rodgers and three colleagues climbed into an unarmored Humvee loaded with satellite transmission equipment and fell into column formation with the M1AI Abrams battle tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles of Apache Troop, 3rd Squadron, of the storied 7th Cavalry and crossed the Line of Departure between Kuwait and Iraq. Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry: An Embedded Reporter in Iraq is Rodgers’s account of the fight from the Kuwaiti border to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Rodgers was embedded with the "tip of the tip of the spear," the armored reconnaissance unit tasked with clearing the way for the invasion of Iraq. For the next three weeks Rodgers—a seasoned combat correspondent who has covered armed conflicts in the West Bank, along the "Green Line" in Lebanon, and in Sarajevo, Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan—was a first-person witness to the opening campaign of the most significant war America has embarked upon since Vietnam—and, like Vietnam, it will continue to shape and define American history and foreign policy in the twenty-first century.

Rodgers and his journalistic colleagues in Operation Iraqi Freedom became pioneers in the process of embedding, the placing of journalists who can transmit video reports in real time under combat conditions with no censoring authority to block their reporting. This technology, which may well be outlawed by the Department of Defense in future conflicts, enabled CNN viewers to experience the invasion from "Embed U"—the prewar school where embedded journalists learned to scramble into MOPP suits in the event of attack by chemical or biological weapons—to a fierce night ambush on a narrow dirt road south of the Euphrates River, to the sight of torn and burning corpses of Iraqi soldiers strewn around their flaming Soviet T-72 tank on Iraq Route One at the edge of Baghdad.

During this journey into war, Rodgers and his crew embraced the dangers, the numbing fatigue, and the moments of stark fear of the young armored cavalrymen they lived with twenty-four hours each day, an experience that created for them the lifelong bond that only soldiers serving together under fire share. Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry covers the remorse of their military companions after two Iraqi children were killed by friendly fire from a Bradley fighting vehicle during an ambush, suicide charges by hardcore Fedayeen (Faithful-unto-Death) fighters and Republican guard troops, and the rescue of the journalists by a quiet cavalryman from Alabama when he cut down two Iraqi soldiers who were taking aim at them from close range with Kalashnikov machine guns in the confusion of a night firefight. Throughout the campaign Rodgers had unprecedented access to secret operational briefings as the 7th Cavalry fought its way across ancient Mesopotamian deserts once ruled by Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar, and Alexander the Great.

Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry also details Rodgers’s return visit to Iraq a year later. Rodgers reflects on the nature of war and the loss of friends and colleagues—more journalists have been killed in Iraq to date than in the entire Vietnam War—and shares his personal feelings about a conflict that has claimed the lives of over fifteen hundred American men and women. Illustrated with photographs taken during the invasion by Jeff Barwise, the CNN engineer who accompanied Rodgers, Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry is an essential document of the first American war of the new century.

"Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry: An Embedded Reporter in Iraq attests to the character of American soldiers—their intelligence, courage, and integrity. Walt Rodgers proves that despite ‘casus belli’ debates concerning the war in Iraq, our nation has every reason to be proud of the men and women it sends to war." —President Jimmy Carter

"This is a fascinating inside account of the Iraq War from one of America's best reporters. With vivid, gripping language, Walter Rodgers, embedded with the historic Seventh Cav, leads us through every step of the war, from "Embed U" to the fall of Baghdad, from firefights with the Fedayeen to distress calls to CNN headquarters back home. It is a must-read for anyone involved in journalism or foreign affairs." —General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

"Walt Rodgers was the best of the embedded TV reporters riding into Baghdad, and this thrilling book shows why. Like Rodgers, it combines deep knowledge, gruff common sense, and a flair that is based on substance. It's a brilliant and delightfully colorful look at the worlds of both war and journalism." —Walter Isaacson, former chief executive of CNN and author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

"Offering a unique view of war from a truly unique vantage point, Rodgers gives us an always engaging and often gripping narrative, which is informed for his having been there, illuminated by a grasp of history, and made relevant by vast experience in world affairs. Not since T. E. Lawrence has any reporter so unveiled the realities of war in the Middle East." —John MacGaffin, former associate deputy director for operations, CIA

Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press (October 30, 2005) ISBN: 0809326728

Retired Col Richard Taylor served in the 7th Cavalry with 1st Bn 7th Cavalry as Comapny Commander B 1-7 and then as S2 in 1970-71.

During his first tour in Vietnam - 1967- 68. Dick Taylor was a well trained and highly motivated amateur assigned to advise a hard-bitten ARVN infantry battalion working in the mud and streams of IV Corps. He became savvy in a hurry and found that he was both brave and resourceful. He barely survived Tet 1968, then served on an advisory team staff.

For the next two years, Taylor earned a Ranger tab, served on a division staff, and schooled on. He met his wife, and married her days before he returned to Vietnam.

Taylor's second tour - 1970-71, was altogether different. He immediately assumed command of Bravo Company, 1-7 Cav, and excelled as a commander and a leader. He was aggressive in the field, confident in his command, and assertive with his superiors. He fought a good war, a successful war, and when he was forced to take a staff job it was as his battalion's intelligence officer. But the war was winding down, its purpose lost. Taylor's spirit's flagged, but not his fidelity.

Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Casemate Pub (November 2003) ISBN: 193203319X

Contents included in the history are: The 7th Cavalry, The Early Years, World War II (1941-1945), Occupation of Japan (1945-1950), Korean War (1950-1951), Return to Japan (1951-1957), Demilitarized Zone (1957-1965), Fort Benning, Airmobile (1965), Vietnam War (1965-1972), Tri-Cap to Armor (1971-1990), Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), Force Restructuring (1991-1993), Desert Peacekeepers (1992-2000), Bosnia Peacekeepers (1998-1999), Today’s Cavalry (1999-2000) and The Next Generation (2000-2020). Appendicies following the history include: Commanding Generals, Medal of Honor Recipients, Lineage, Datelines/Key Events, Decorations, Heraldic Items, Order of Battle, GarryOwen, Fiddler’s Green, Museum, Major Weapon Systems, The Association, Bibliography, Contributors and an Index.

Contributors and advisory editors of this publication, who are of the utmost authority on the 1st Cavalry Division, include: LTC(R) J.D. Coleman, COL(R) John T. Hodes, LTG Leon J. Laporte, COL James M. Milano, GEN(R) Robert M. Shoemaker, COL(R) Donald H. Walton, BG(R) Arthur J. Junot, COL(R) Robert F. Little Jr., LTC Jeffrey E. Phillips, Steven C. Draper, COL(R) Lyman Chan Duryea, and authored by the 1st Cavalry Division Association Historian, William H. Boudreau.

Anyone who has been attached to the 1st Cavalry Division or is interested in military history should have this publication in their personal library.

304 pages, 9" x 12"
Hardbound with dustjacket ISBN: 1-56311-785-1

This is the story of the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam. The French author, Jacques-François de Chaunac, lived and worked in Vietnam during the war. He writes from personal observation as well as careful research. The book was originally published in France and found a friendly audience. The translator was a young officer under my command who served in the Garry Owen Brigade at the time of some of the events described in this book. For good measure, the author gives excellent explanations of the tactics and techniques developed by the Division in preparation for taking the war to the enemy through the air as well as on the ground.

This is a book by a very perceptive French author, Jacques-François de Chaunac, who comes just about as close as you can get to capturing the fighting spirit, dedication, and brotherhood of the men of the First Air Cavalry Division. François de Chaunac, an author who sees more clearly than many Americans of the war generation, captures the spirit and the courage of the American fighting man in a fast moving narrative. Those who did not serve can never know. Those who avoided service should know shame.

The American Cavalry in Vietnam tells the story of the American 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam from its arrival in Vietnam in September of 1965 until the departure of its 3rd Brigade in June of 1972. In this period the First Cav fought some of the most intense battles of the Vietnam War.

The translator, Lyman Duryea, was a young officer who served in the Garry Owen Brigade at the time of some of the events described in this book. Introduction by Robert F. Litle, Jr.

312 pages, 6" x 9" Hardbound with dustjacket ISBN: 1563118904

Heart of a Soldier: Rick Rescorla 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry

Heart of a Soldier shows us bravery under fire, loyalty to one's comrades, and the miracle of finding happiness late in life. In charge of security for Morgan Stanley, Rick Rescorla successfully got 2,700 of its employees out of the World Trade Center's South Tower on September 11. Then, thinking perhaps of the soldiers who had died in his arms and of Susan, the woman who had "made his life," he went back and began climbing the tower stairs, looking for stragglers.

Sometimes from the ashes of tragedy comes an extraordinary, even magical story that inspires, offers hope, and helps heal even the deepest wounds. Heart of a Soldier is such a story, one of love and friendship, danger and courage, redemption and heroism, thrillingly told by one of America's finest writers..

Susan Greer, middle-aged and divorced, had just about given up on love and romance when she met a stranger who, oddly, was jogging in his bare feet..

Born in Britain on the eve of World War II, Rick Rescorla became an American citizen and a much-decorated soldier. His extraordinary life is woven into the military conflicts of his time, from the battlefields of colonial Africa, where he and his best friend, U.S. Army officer Dan Hill, led lives of adventure worthy of Kipling and Conrad, to some of the deadliest battles of Vietnam to the epicenter of modern-day terrorism. Surviving them all with great courage and style, Rescorla seemed invincible..

Rescorla tried to put combat and death behind him, and for a time it seemed as though he had succeeded. With Susan, he found the peace and domesticity he craved. But it turned out that everything in his remarkable life was preparing him for one last act of selflessness that would transcend all that had come before. Then, on September 11, 2001, he faced the ultimate test..

ISBN: 0743240987

Compelled by the known fallacies in the Pulitzer Prizewinning Associated Press story of the alleged slaughter of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri, Major Bateman, an academic historian and professional soldier, presents an alternate explanation of the events through the perspective of the soldiers and their commanders, the 1948-50 South Korean civil war, and the broader state of U.S. military policy and force readiness. In a solid historical analysis of the incident he debunks the AP allusion to a widespread massacre of civilians by U.S. forces at No Gun Ri and shows how veterans who allegedly witnessed this event and influenced others were not even present. Told concisely with extensive documentation from previously overlooked sources.

Major Robert Bateman served with the 7th Cavalry Regiment, was associate professor of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and is currently an Army fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He resides in northern Virginia.ISBN: 0811717631

With over half a decade of service as a war correspondent in Vietnam, John Laurence earned deserved accolades for his reportage, especially for his documentary The World of Charlie Company. In this superb book, The Cat from Hue, he returns to that time, drawing on long-buried memories to capture the confusion, deceit, and terror of the era.

In 1968, John Laurence unhappily found himself dodging bullets and poking among ruins of the ancient Vietnamese city of Hue, eventually wandering square into the sights of a gun held by a North Vietnamese soldier, who could easily have shot him dead but did not. It was not his first encounter with mortal danger, and not his last; as this long, intricately constructed memoir unfolds, death greets the reader on nearly every page, along with the more mundane facts of war--the language of soldiers, the things they carried, the numbed resignation to battle as "an edge against fear." (Superstition plays a role, too: Laurence figured that the "coins, charms, four-leaf clovers, religious medals and all kinds of talismans" that he kept with him would somehow shield him from bullets, as perhaps they did.) In the company of a shell-shocked kitten, the cat of his book's title, Laurence goes on to document the lives and deaths of young soldiers during the invasion of Cambodia, men who, though personally decent in the main, were part of "a monster that inflicted so much random violence and death it produced an entire new body of evil, a catalogue of cruelty that overshadowed any possible virtue that might have come from defeating the Communists."

ISBN: 1891620312

This largely autobiographical novel is about two young boys growing up in a small southern town, one the son of a white Southern Baptist minister and the other the oldest child of a black textile worker. It examines relationships between whites and blacks prior to the southern school desegregation which began in the 1970s presenting lower middle income southern families, both black and white, as they were: highly functional, extended and usually happy. It also addresses the realities of the late 1960s when their sons were called upon to fight an unpopular foreign war which, although unnecessary and not of clear vital national interest, was nonetheless winnable. Too many young men, not allowed to win their battles, betrayed by politicians, bureaucrats and protesters came home in silver caskets, their names permanently engraved on black granite walls, their souls crying out for eternity in silent anguish. This book is for them, their families and their buddies.

ISBN: 0965590704

The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry had the dubious distinction of being the unit that had fought the biggest battle of the war to date, and had suffered the worst casualties. We and the 1st Battalion." A Yale graduate who volunteered to serve his country, Larry Gwin was only twenty-three years old when he arrived in Vietnam in 1965. After a brief stint in the Delta, Gwin was reassigned to the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile ) in An Khe. There, in the hotly contested Central Highlands, he served almost nine months as executive officer for Alpha Company, 2/7, fighting against crack NVA troops in some of the war's most horrific battles.

The bloodiest conflict of all began November 12, 1965, after 2nd Battalion was flown into the Ia Drang Valley west of Pleiku. Acting as point, Alpha Company spearheaded the battalion's march to landing zone Albany for pickup, not knowing they were walking into the killing zone of an NVA ambush that would cost them 10 percent casualties. Gwin spares no one, including himself, in his gut-wrenching account of the agony of war. Through the stench of death and the acrid smell of napalm, he chronicles the Vietnam War in all its nightmarish horror.

ISBN 0804119228

It is the story of an ordeal sustained by the flesh and blood of the United Nations, Americans, and Republic of Korea soldiers, not to mention the innocent and defenseless refugees.

Superior photos, maps, casualty list, military symbols, weapons glossary, and the roster of the 7th U.S. Cavalry Association.128 pages 8 1/2" x 11" Hardbound.

ISBN 0938021842

Covers the history of the 7th U.S. Cavalry from the end of World War II through the costly action in Korea. The definitive account of the famous 7th Cavalry fight. This edition is illustrated with maps and intense, stunning battlefield photographs . 128 pages 8 1/2 x 11 softbound.

ISBN 1563110881

Author published, 1960. First Edition. Quarto (12.25" x 7.25").

"The Title of Garryowen in Glory is taken from the last stanza of an Irish marching song adopted by Gen. George Armstrong Custer as the Regimental Song. The 7th Cavalry was also known as the 'GarryOwen Regiment,' its members as 'GarryOwens,' and the word itself has been used as the Regimental greeting, password, and battle cry.

ISBN 0848809599

Fire In The Streets: The Battle For Hue, Tet 1968 is the definitive combat narrative of the bitter, hard-fought, running battle of the 1968 Communist Tet Offensive. Fire In The Streets is the vivid account of the only building-by-building, street-by-street city battle of the Vietnam War involving American troops. Readers will travel the mean, bloody streets of war-shattered Hue with veteran bush Marines who must learn the deadly cat and mouse game one terrifying step at a time, and join two Air Cavalry battalions, Read about the 5th Battalion 7th Cavalry as they struggle and die to cut off Hue's embattled Communist fighters from outside help.

ISBN: 0935553185

The Chaplin of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Korean War 50-51
A factual diary. As the fighting troops of the Seventh Cavalry moved
with the changing tides of war up and down the Korean peninsular.
It is the story of the men of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment
To all veterans who fought with the historic Seventh Cavalry in
Korea 50-51 This Book is proudly dedicated

ISBN 0961985801