During the Tet Offensive, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces hit Huế with a coordinated assault that overran much of the ...

In his strongest attack yet on President Johnson's Vietnam policies, Kennedy said "it is time for the truth - time to drop the mask of official illusion" which he said had been shattered by Communist ...

(First of all, do we have a perpetual book recommendation thread? I did a search & couldn't find one, but maybe my search-fu is lacking) I've just finished the Kindle version of Mark Bowden's Hue 1968 ...

BookPeople will present Mark Bowden, author of the blockbuster bestseller, Black Hawk Down, who will talk about his new book, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam. The book tells ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A U.S. Marine holds out his M-16 rifle to pull a wounded comrade to safety during the battle for the city of Hue. More than 200 Americans were killed and 1,500 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: To an American public already leery about the escalating costs and moral compromises of the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hue established that “winning” in Vietnam would ...

Mark Bowden, author of 'Black Hawk Down,' talks about a turning point in the Vietnam War, the ferocious battle for the old imperial capital of Hue. He says "it was the bloodiest battle of its kind in ...

One day [Marine Theodore Wallace] saw an officer casually aim his rifle and try to shoot a Vietnamese boy in the distance. “Sir, what are you doing?” he’d asked. “He’s probably supplying the [North ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Given the choice between writing an intimate and riveting narrative or a more guarded, academic, high-level analysis, Bowden opts for the former. That is no mistake, ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: An unidentified Marine poses as rubble smokes behind him. U.S. Marines battled Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army house by house, street by street, brick by ...