Hue 1968 [electronic resource] : a turning point of the American war in Vietnam
Bowden, Mark2017
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By January 1968, despite an influx of half a million American troops, 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. With unprecedented access to war archives in the U.S. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Mark Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple points of view.
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Bowden, Mark, author
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New York : Grove Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (608 pages)
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9781611859393 (ebook)
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English
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1913329