Joseph L. Galloway Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Joseph L. Galloway was a published American author and for half of a century was one of the premiere war and foreign correspondents for the country.

He was born on December 13, 1941, in Refugio, Texas, and passed away August 18, 2021.

Joseph was a senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspaper starting in 2002 before retiring. Prior to that, he had an assignment serving as the special consultant to General Colin Powell at the State Department. He spent 22 years working as a foreign and war correspondent and a bureau chief for United Press International. He also spent two decades serving as a senior editor and a senior writer for the United States News and World Report Magazine.

Over the course of years of foreign postings, he served four tours working as a war correspondent in Vietnam. He also worked to cover the 1971 India-Pakistan War, as well as other combat operations. He covered Desert Shield & Desert Storm from 1990 to 1991. He also covered the Haiti incursion, making trips to Iraq and covering the war there in 2003 as well as from 2005-2006.

He is a co-author of We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, a national bestseller. This was adapted into the movie We Were Soldiers, which starred Mel Gibson and premiered to critical acclaim. It has been printed in six languages and has sold over 1.2 million copies and counting. He has additionally co-authored the book Triumph Without Victory, and released a sequel to We Were Soldiers with General Moore that was titled We Are Soldiers Still.

Galloway was decorated with a Bronze Star Medal in 1998 for his work rescuing wounded soldiers who were under fire in the Ia Drang Valley in 1965. It is the only medal of valor that was awarded to a civilian by the U.S. Army for the actions they took during the Vietnam War.

He received the National Magazine Award in 1991 in recognition of a cover article in the United States News and World Report regarding the 25th anniversary of the Ia Drang Battles. He also received a National News Media Award from the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1992 due to his Gulf War coverage.

The author received the President’s Award for the Arts in 2000 from the Vietnam Veterans Association of America. In 2001 he also was the recipient of the BG Robert L. Denig Award for Distinguished Service, presented by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.

In 2005, he got the Abraham Lincoln Award of the Union League Club of Philadelphia. He also received the John Reagan McCrary Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. He was given the 2011 Doughboy Award, the infantry’s highest honor for an individual. He also received the Legacy of Service Award in 2011 from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

Galloway belongs to the board of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the 1st Cavalry Division Association, the National Infantry Museum, the School of Social Studies of The Citadel, the Museum of America’s Wars, and the Military Reporters and Editors Association. He has also received honorary doctorate degrees from Norwich University and Mount St. Mary’s College. He was named the Journalist-in-Residence at Texas A&M University’s Corpus Christi campus in 2012.

Galloway is married to his wife, Dr. Grace Liem Galloway. He lives in Concord, North Carolina.

We Were Soldiers Once… And Young: Ia Drang– The Battle That Changed Vietnam is a bestseller on the New York Times and a historical recounting of infantry combat that people such as author Col. David Hackworth have called ‘the best […] I have ever read’. If you are a history buff or just love reading interesting nonfiction, this might be the perfect book for you.

It was November 1965 that some four hundred and fifty men belonging to the First Battalion in the Seventh Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. Harold Moore ended up being dropped into the Ia Drang Valley in a small clearing. In what seemed like no time at all, they were surrounded by two thousand North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, a sister battalion was slaughtered.

Together these actions at the landing zones made up one of the most significant battles to take place during the Vietnam War, not to mention one of the most savage. They were the first big engagements that took place between the U.S. Army as well as the People’s Army of Vietnam.

How these Americans managed to carry on, sacrificing themselves for their comrades as well as never giving up, is part of what makes up this intricate picture of war when it was its most devastating and inspiring. Lieutenant General Moore and Joseph L. Galloway worked to interview hundreds of men who fought in this battle. Galloway was the sole journalist on the ground serving through all this fighting.

They show men who are facing the ultimate challenge and contending with it in different ways that they would have found unimaginable. It shows us as it rarely has before one of the most horrific but heroic endeavors that man has ever taken on. Read this book to follow along with it firsthand!

We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam is a sequel written by Lt. General Harold Moore and Joseph L. Galloway. Vietnam War enemies are able to find reconciliation in this sequel.

In this memoir, Galloway and Moore bring to life one of the most important but also heartbreaking battles to take place during the Vietnam War. Now the co-authors are able to bring the readers up to date on the various soldiers that were introduced to the reader in their first book.

Coming back to the Valley of Ia Drang in Vietnam over four decades after the battle took place, the authors bring back their relationships with ten veterans from the U.S. of the conflict, as well as with former foes, to explore how this war changed everyone and their countries also.

It is a journey back to hallowed ground, making warfare human as they reflect on the cost of this deadly war. With an introduction by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, this is a book that you won’t want to miss.