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Author : Irwin Unger,Debi Unger
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014234390
The chronicle of the year 1968 complete with civil rights marches, the Vietnam War, and the heyday of the counterculture.
Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802189240
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 : James Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782004288
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 : Dennis Wainstock
Publisher : Enigma Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9781936274413
Election year 1968 revisited and analyzed. Candidates: Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace. Radical change in American politics.
Author : Don Oberdorfer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0801867037
Finalist for the 1971 National Book Award In early 1968, Communist forces in Vietnam launched a surprise offensive that targeted nearly every city, town, and major military base throughout South Vietnam. For several hours, the U.S. embassy in Saigon itself came under siege by Viet Cong soldiers. Militarily, the offensive was a failure, as the North Vietnamese Army and its guerrilla allies in the south suffered devastating losses. Politically, however, it proved to be a crucial turning point in America's involvement in Southeast Asia and public opinion of the war. In this classic work of military history and war reportage—long considered the definitive history of Tet and its aftermath—Don Oberdorfer moves back and forth between the war and the home front to document the lasting importance of this military action. Based on his own observations as a correspondent for the Washington Post and interviews with hundreds of people who were caught up in the struggle, Tet! remains an essential contribution to our understanding of the Vietnam War.
Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:918966797
Author : Captain Ronnie E. Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136301087
This book brings to light many aspects of the Tet offensive of 1968, an event acknowledged as the turning-point of the Vietnam War. Using previously unseen Communist Vietnamese documents combined with sources of Western origin, the author provides a more accurate version of the events, their significance, and reveals the crucial role played by US intelligence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756516234
Discusses the key people and events of the surprise attack launched by the North Vietnamese army and the Viet Cong in 1968.
Author : Adrian George Traas
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Government publications z United States
ISBN : 0160935024
Author : Irwin Unger,Debi Unger
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631683527
Provides an in-depth look at a pivotal year in U.S. history, with attention to the Kennedy and King assassinations, the Black Power and Hippie movements, and other changes in the political climate that continue to influence the nation.
Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:45376925
The American War Library in Gardena, California, presents a collection of Internet resources on the 1968 Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. The offensive involved attacks by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese against cities in South Vietnam. These attacks were considered a turning point in the war.
Author : Kyle Longley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107193031
Examines President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his response to the year that he characterized as a 'year of a continuous nightmare'.
Author : Erik Villard
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782893615
[Includes 10 maps, 5 illustrations] “This monograph focuses on the battles of Quang Tri City and Hue that took place during the 1968 Tet offensive. The offensive itself, an all-out effort by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces to overrun the major cities of South Vietnam, marked the turning point of the Vietnam War. Although the attacks were costly failures in military terms, they set the United States on a path of disengagement from the war that ultimately led to the fall of Saigon some seven years later. The battles for the two northernmost provincial capitals in South Vietnam, Quang Tri City and Hue, are particularly worth examining because the enemy regarded them as key objectives, second only to Saigon, the national capital. To a large extent, the success or failure of the offensive depended on what happened there. The battles tell us much about how the enemy prepared for the offensive, why he achieved a high degree of surprise and initial success, and why his attacks ultimately failed. The battle for Quang Tri City, a textbook example of a vertical envelopment, resulted in a quick allied victory. The fight for Hue turned into a slow, grinding campaign of attrition that lasted nearly a month before the enemy was finally defeated. Together, they offer instruction on the strengths and limitations of airmobile warfare and a primer on urban fighting in a counterinsurgency environment, subjects that continue to be a major Army interest throughout the world.”
Author : James Arnold
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1841762547
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. Detailing the plans and forces involved, James Arnold demonstrates how the bloody fighting in Saigon, Hue and other cities instead resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North; and how, paradoxically, the American people and their leaders came to perceive the war for Vietnam was lost. This book provides an excellent assessment of the key battle of the Vietnam conflict.
Author : James J. Wirtz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501713354
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.