Finished reading "We were soldiers..." just two nights ago.
Extraordinary read. The descriptions of close contact battle and the ensuing death and destruction were told with a combination of pride and sadness which made it quite compelling. Two major memories remain (ignoring the upper echelon politics) - the refusal of the medical helicopter guys to take part when the need was so obvious and the original US Army's method of notifying relatives of a family death ... message delivery by Yellow Cab!!!! Can that have really been how it was done?
Spent two and a half years operating in the area just prior to that period of escalation and the memories flood back.