With unprecedented access to war archives in the U.S. 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. 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. Within hours the entire city was in their hands save for two small military outposts. The lynchpin 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. 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 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. You can read this before Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam written by Mark Bowden which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
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