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Bowden, Mark, 1951-
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Hue, Battle of, Huế, Vietnam, 1968.
Tet Offensive, 1968.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns -- Vietnam -- Hue.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Urban warfare -- United States.
Huế (Vietnam) -- History.
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Bowden, Mark, 1951-
Hue, Battle of, Huế, Vietnam, 1968.
Tet Offensive, 1968.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns -- Vietnam -- Hue.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Urban warfare -- United States.
Huế (Vietnam) -- History.
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Huế 1968 : a turning point of the American war in Vietnam / Mark Bowden.
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Bowden, Mark, 1951-
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.
Call #:
959
.70434
B784h
Subjects
Hue, Battle of, Huế, Vietnam, 1968.
Tet Offensive, 1968.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Campaigns -- Vietnam -- Hue.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Urban warfare -- United States.
Huế (Vietnam) -- History.
ISBN:
9780802127006 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
610 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
The infiltration -- The fall of Huế -- Futility and denial -- Counterattack in the Triangle and disaster at La Chu -- Sweeping the Triangle -- Taking back the Citadel.
Summary:
In mid-1967, the North Vietnam leadership had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action and part popular uprising, the effort included attacks across South Vietnam, but the most dramatic and successful would be the capture of Huế, the country's intellectual and cultural capital. At 2:30 a.m. on January 31, the first day of the Lunar New Year (called Tet), ten thousand National Liberation Front troops descended from hidden camps and, led by locals like eighteen-year-old village girl and Viet Cong member Che Thi Mung, surged across the city of 140,000. By morning, all of Huế was in Front hands save for two small military outposts. The American commanders in country and politicians in Washington refused to believe the size and scope of the Front's presence. Captain Chuck Meadows was ordered to lead his 160-marine Golf Company in the first attempt to reenter Huế later that day. Facing thousands of entrenched enemy troops, he reported: "We are outgunned and outmanned." 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. 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 more than ten thousand combatant and civilian lives, the Battle of Huế was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate over the war was never again about winning, only about how to leave. Mark Bowden is the author of Black Hawk Down and The Three Battles of Wanat: And Other True Stories.
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