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Hue 1968 - A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam (Paperback, Main)
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Hue 1968 - A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam (Paperback, Main)
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By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a
stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American
forces, announced a new phase of the war in which 'the end begins
to come into view.' The North Vietnamese had different ideas. In
mid-1967, the leadership in Hanoi had started planning an offensive
intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action
and part popular uprising, the Tet Offensive included attacks
across South Vietnam, but the most dramatic and successful would be
the capture of Hue, the country's cultural capital. At 2:30 a.m. on
January 31, 10,000 National Liberation Front troops descended from
hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. By morning, all
of Hue was in Front hands save for two small military outposts. The
commanders in country and politicians in Washington refused to
believe the size and scope of the Front's presence. After several
futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would
finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block
and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat
since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in
the U.S. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both
sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through
multiple points of view. Played out over twenty-four days of
terrible fighting and ultimately costing 10,000 combatant and
civilian lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the
entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again
about winning, only about how to leave. In Hue 1968, Bowden
masterfully reconstructs this pivotal moment in the American war in
Vietnam.
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