We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

In November 1965, Lt. Col. Harold Moore and about 450 men of his 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, were landed by helicopter in a small clearing of the Ia Drang Valley and found themselves surrounded by some 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. A sister battalion two and a half miles off was cut to pieces three days later. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, the only journalist on the ground for the whole fight, tell the story of these actions at landing zones X-Ray and Albany, the first major clashes of the US Army with North Vietnam's People's Army. They interviewed hundreds of men who fought there, North Vietnamese commanders among them. The book became the 2002 film We Were Soldiers.

Stephane Grand, managing partner of S.J. Grand Financial and Tax Advisory, puts it on his reading list with the remark that entrepreneurship is infantry combat.