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File Size: 10183 KB
Print Length: 608 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (June 6, 2017)
Publication Date: June 6, 2017
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Language: English
ASIN: B071Y87H9H
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Reading this book made me uncomfortable for a lot of reasons. I was a young marine and part of the volunteer group that first went into Hue at the beginning of the battle. My outfit was 2/1, then at Con Thien, so I was only in Hue at the beginning and took no part in the serious fighting that came later.I thought the book was carefully researched, and well written, and as honest as he could be. My criticism is only that the author glosses over the fact that journalists did have a staggering effect on the fighting, and often their stories did fuel the anti-war movement back home.It occurs to me that if journalists had written about the Battle of the Bulge in the same tone that Walter Cronkite and others portrayed Hue, we would have sued for peace with Germany.However, the book is painfully accurate about what it was like to be in Vietnam, in the Tet of 1968, and what it was like to be in a firefight. I took no exception to his portrayal of those in leadership as being both competent and incompetent because it’s true of any organization. And I appreciate the portrayal of marines and soldiers who might not have ever gotten a thank-you back home, but who proved themselves hero’s every day.I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of the battle.
5 StarsIf you only ever read one book about Vietnam, you could do a lot worse than Bowden’s “Hue 1968.†Other good choices would be Karnow’s “Vietnam: A History†and Sheehan’s “A Bright and Shining Lie.†However, Hue 1968 delivers not only the facts of the American tragedy in Vietnam , or even a particular point of view of the facts, but it also accurately depicts the feelings of the Americans serving in Vietnam, as well as those of Americans at home, and the Vietnamese who could not escape the war.I was a young marine in Vietnam at the time of the Tet offensive in 1968. I was not an officer and had no strategic view of the conflict. I didn’t even have a clear tactical view of the events in which I was directly involved. That said, Mr. Bowden’s book is such a profound telling of the events that I can almost smell the rice paddies. It is exactly this ability of Mr. Bowden that allows us the readers to either relive events from our own past or experience them ,as nearly as possible, as events that are worlds apart from our experience. He did it in “Black Hawk Down†and and again in“Guests of the Ayatollah.†And now he may have written the best book of his lifetime.Recommended: Absolutely.
Mark Bowden is an outstanding writer. I read a lot of books about Vietnam and Mr. Bowden goes into so much detail, that you really can put yourself right there in the battle. In fact, I was there. On January 31st 1968 I was with Echo battery2/11 in Phu Bai, the night the TET offensive started. We supported 2/5 at the time. Although I didn't set foot in Hue at the time of the battle, we dropped some 155mm shells on the city. We kept saying "why is 2/5 having such a hard time up in Hue". Little did we know that there were 4 regiments of NVA and VC in the city. I went back to Hue last year and visited the old imperial capital. When I walked down Le Loi street, I was overcome with emotion thinking of the Marines that were wounded and killed in that city.
This is an excellent book about a decisive battle in the Vietnam war that I had never really known much about despite reading several books about the war.If you've read any of the author's other books, you'll know what to expect--excellent research, good writing, accounts of both the macro and the micro issues. In this book, while the author provides some coverage of both the North Vietnamese and US (as well as civilians), most of the book concentrates on the US, in particular the Marines. The book is pretty even-handed between the sides, although there are few accounts of the actual fighting from the Vietnamese side. The author also provides in epilogue in which the subsequent fates of the many of the people is described, which is always nice.While the author paints a very sympathetic portrait of most of the marines and soldiers caught in the fighting, he generally has a veryr unflattering view of US higher commanders, who simply wouldn't believe that the North Vietnamese could take and hold a major city, because it did not conform to their preconceptions of what the enemy was capable of, or what strategy they would adopt. As a result, for several days after the city had fallen, US commanders sent laughably small contingents--individual companies of a couple of hundred men--to retake the city, occupied by up to 10,000 enemy troops. Commanders on the ground were ridiculed for their incompetence and timidity for their failures to retake the city, and ordered again and again into futile attacks.Westmoreland in particular comes in for withering criticism; he seems to have been so completely hoodwinked by the North Vietnamese that they were planning a major attack on Khe Sanh (which never came), that he dismissed the rest of the Tet offensive, and the battle in Hue in particular, as diversions by the crafty enemy to distract the Americans from the impending battle at Khe Sanh.I wanted to mention a few minor criticisms which didn't detract much from the book for me, but maybe more important to others:--the book includes too many characters which are mentioned a couple of times in the book, but that's it. This is particularly true for many of the civilians trapped in the city, but also for many of the soldiers, such as a Marine captain who was there from the first day of the battle and then rejoined the ARVN unit he advised in the citadel for the second half of the fighting--what was his experience with the ARVN troops like? Generally, it would have been interesting to find out more about the experiences of more people mentioned in the book.--speaking of ARVN, for some reason the author does not really cover them at all;--the author focuses almost exclusively on infantry, marines, and tankers, but it might be been interesting to hear from some of the sailors on the Mike boats, the helicopter pilots, etc.--while the book includes some maps, I think that more maps would have been helpful.
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