Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

By Mark Bowden

Categories: History

Hue 1968 is Mark Bowden's history of the battle for the city of Hue during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. In January 1968, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces seized Hue, and American and South Vietnamese troops fought for weeks to retake it. Drawing on interviews with soldiers, civilians and fighters on both sides, the author of Black Hawk Down shows the brutal fighting and how the battle changed American views of the war.

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