The Siege at Hue - Couverture souple

Smith, George W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1626379742 ISBN 13 : 9781626379749

Editeur : Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 2021

Synopsis

Charged with monitoring the huge civilian press corps that descended on Hue during the Vietnam War's Tet offensive, US Army Captain George W. Smith witnessed firsthand a vicious twenty-five day battle. Smith recounts in harrowing detail the separate, poorly coordinated wars that were fought in the retaking of the Hue. Notably, he documents the little-known contributions of the South Vietnamese forces, who prevented the Citadel portion of the city from being overrun, and who then assisted the US Marine Corps in evicting the North Vietnamese Army. He also tells of the social and political upheaval in the city, reporting the execution of nearly 3,000 civilians by the NVA and the Vietcong. The tenacity of the NVA forces in Hue earned the respect of the troops on the field and triggered a sequence of attitudinal changes in the United States. It was those changes, Smith suggests, that eventually led to the US abandonment of the war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George W. Smith (1940-2017), a veteran of the Vietnam War, was a sports writer at the Hartford Courant for twenty-five years, until his retirement in 1995. He is author of Carlson's Raid: The Daring Assault on Makin (a Military History Book-of-the-Month Club selection) and Do-or-Die Men: The 1st Marine Raider Battalion at Guadalcanal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1626379742
• ISBN 13: 9781626379749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
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• Personne responsable: non disponible