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The Siege at Hue (Paperback)
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Charged with monitoring the huge civilian press corps that
descended on Hue during the Vietnam War's Tet offensive, US Army
Captain George W. Smith witnessed firsthand a vicious twenty-five
day battle. Smith recounts in harrowing detail the separate, poorly
coordinated wars that were fought in the retaking of the Hue.
Notably, he documents the little-known contributions of the South
Vietnamese forces, who prevented the Citadel portion of the city
from being overrun, and who then assisted the US Marine Corps in
evicting the North Vietnamese Army. He also tells of the social and
political upheaval in the city, reporting the execution of nearly
3,000 civilians by the NVA and the Vietcong. The tenacity of the
NVA forces in Hue earned the respect of the troops on the field and
triggered a sequence of attitudinal changes in the United States.
It was those changes, Smith suggests, that eventually led to the US
abandonment of the war.
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