OBERDORFER : Tet! (fülszöveg)
Here, for the first time, is the exciting story of one of the most important battles of our time, the Tet Offensive of 1968. For it was Tet that shocked America into giving up on the Vietnam war – and helped bring down a President of the United States.
In a dramatic narrative told from both sides of the lines, Don Oberdorfer takes the reader to Hanoi as the Communist leaders conceive their bold plan – to win the war by attacking simultaneously in more than 100 cities and towns. He takes us down the jungle trails as the Communists prepare their attacks, and in minute-by-minute accounts he tells how the battles were fought. Here is the full story of the massacre at Hue, in which the Communists slaughtered 2,800 people.
Here also is the stunning impact of Tet upon the American people and their leaders. We witness the dismay in the White House at the news that the Viet Cong were storming the American embassy – and the further dismay at the word that Tet had disillusioned the influential Walter Cronkite. ("What the hell is going on?" he exclaimed off camera, "I thought we were winning the war!") We see the nation appalled by a photo of the South Vietnamese police chief murdering a Viet Cong suspect.
TET! is the kind of rounded and richly-peopled history that did not emerge from World War II until years afterward. It presents the one Vietnam battle with the scope and importance to make a monumental book.
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