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The Siege at Hue / George W. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685854102
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs -- Preface -- Chronology -- 1. Next Stop, Vietnam -- 2. The Lotus Flower -- 3. Staying Alive -- 4. To the Rescue -- 5. Help for the Citadel -- 6. Facing the Unknown -- 7. Total War -- 8. The Tide Turns -- 9. Live, from Hue -- 10. The Citadel -- 11. A Jump Start -- 12. Beginning of the End -- 13. Credit the ARVN -- 14. The Aftermath -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographs -- Preface -- Chronology -- 1. Next Stop, Vietnam -- 2. The Lotus Flower -- 3. Staying Alive -- 4. To the Rescue -- 5. Help for the Citadel -- 6. Facing the Unknown -- 7. Total War -- 8. The Tide Turns -- 9. Live, from Hue -- 10. The Citadel -- 11. A Jump Start -- 12. Beginning of the End -- 13. Credit the ARVN -- 14. The Aftermath -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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