Vietnam, January - August 1968
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1018
ISBN-13: 9780160511516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1018
ISBN-13: 9780160511516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 0802189245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: “An extraordinary feat of journalism”. —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched attacks across South Vietnam. The lynchpin of this campaign was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital. 10,000 troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city, taking everything but two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the siege, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city block by block, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in the United States and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 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. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Arnold
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-09-20
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1782004289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A slim, detailed volume on a key moment in the Vietnam War, featuring battlescenes, maps and archive photography. The 1968 Tet Offensive was the decisive battle for Vietnam. Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other cities actually resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North. In this excellent assessment of the key battle of the Vietnam conflict, James Arnold details the plans and forces involved and explains how, despite the outcome of the battle, the American people and their leaders came to perceive the war for Vietnam as lost.
Author: Jack Shulimson
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 828
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was donated as a part of the David H. Hugel Collection, an archival collection of the Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore.
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James J. Wirtz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013-07-12
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1501713353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this account of one of the worst intelligence failures in American history, James J. Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. Wirtz reconstructs the turning point of the Vietnam War in unprecedented detail. Drawing upon Vietcong and recently declassified U.S. sources, he is able to trace the strategy and unfolding of the Tet campaign as well as the U.S. response.
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher: Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of the Historian
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1070
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →State Department Publication 11041. Editor, Kent Sieg. GeneralEditor, Edward C. Keefer. Part of a subseries of volumes which document the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Includes memoranda and records of discussions that set forth policy issues and options and show decisions or actions taken.