We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
About the book
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.
It appears on a reading list from Stephane Grand, managing partner of S.J. Grand Financial and Tax Advisory, who says he took on the hardship of building his business with no outside money.
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Stephane Grand (Managing Partner/S.J. Grand Financial and Tax Advisory)
When a look back at my career path, it is the one of an entrepreneur. I have built various businesses, from accounting and financial advisory firms to tech and security businesses. I have also spent most of my adult life in China, a country that is quite hostile to foreigners and very unfair. I have accepted to suffer the hardships of building my business without any investment from anybody, and stick very firmly to my values. I would recommend young people to read about adventure, hardships, and moral choices. Of course, it would be important to also read about the drivers of our humanity, hence the motley list below:
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- We were soldiers once, and young … because entrepreneurship is infantry combat.
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