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By: Mark Bowden
Price: $19.98
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press: June 2017
Seller ID: 257518
ISBN: 0802127002
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New - New
Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction
The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet ...
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By: Roy, Jules
Price: $8.98
Publisher: Basic Books: January 2002
Seller ID: 293402
ISBN: 0786709588
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Very Good
Forty years ago, France's war with the anticolonial Communist-led Vietminh insurgency climaxed in the bloody battle for the valley of Dienbienphu. The Vietminh's victory put the 17 million people of North Vietnam under Communist rule and would, in two years, induce America's attempt to save South Vietnamwithout heeding the French army's catastrophic defeat. That defeat, former French soldier Jules Roy explains, occurred not because of a shortage of arms or troops, but more important, less tangible reasons. Hungry for a textbook victory, the French military command occupied the valley in a p...
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By: N/A
Price: $14.98
Publisher: Grove Press: July 1995
Seller ID: 257548
ISBN: 0802133622
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: New - New
Price: $5.95
Publisher: Plume: May 1990
Seller ID: 235865
ISBN: 0452264170
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - VeryGood