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050	0	0	_aDS557.8.H83 _bB68 2017
100	1		_aBowden, Mark, _d1951- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHuế 1968 : _ba turning point of the American war in Vietnam / _cMark Bowden.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtlantic Monthly Press, _c[2017]
300			_a610 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes glossary of Vietnamese terms and index.
505	2		_aThe infiltration -- The fall of Huế -- Futility and denial -- Counterattack in the Triangle and disaster at La Chu -- Sweeping the Triangle -- Taking back the Citadel.
520			_aIn 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 Hûé, 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 Hûé 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 Hûé 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. 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 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 Hue 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.
650		0	_aHue, Battle of, Huế, Vietnam, 1968.
650		0	_aTet Offensive, 1968.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _xUrban warfare _zUnited States.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBowden, Mark, 1951- _tHuế 1968 _bFirst edition. _dNew York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017 _z9780802189240 _w(DLC) 2017023074
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