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A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Atlantic Monthly Press
June 2017
On Sale: June 6, 2017
608 pages
ISBN: 0802127002
EAN: 9780802127006
Kindle: B071Y87H9H
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York
Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of
the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in
the American War in Vietnam. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese
launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in
what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynch-pin
of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam?s intellectual and
cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops
who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city
of 140,000. Within hours the entire city was in their hands
save for two small military outposts. American commanders
refused to believe the size and scope of the Front?s
presence, 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 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 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. Hue 1968 is a gripping and moving account of this
pivotal moment.
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