- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Osprey Publishing; illustrated edition edition (May 24 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0850459605
- ISBN-13: 978-0850459609
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 0.7 x 24.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,071,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Osprey's study of the 1968 Tet Offensive, which was the decisive battle for Vietnam (1955-1975). Masterminded by the brilliant North Vietnamese General, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was intended to trigger a general uprising in South Vietnam. However, the bloody fighting for Saigon, Hue and other cities actually resulted in a catastrophic defeat for the North. In this excellent assessment of the key battle of the Vietnam conflict, James Arnold details the plans and forces involved and explains how, despite the outcome of the battle, the American people and their leaders came to perceive the war for Vietnam as lost.
About the Author
James R Arnold is a US-born freelance writer who has contributed to numerous military publications. James spent his formative years in Europe and used the opportunity to study the sites of historic battlefields. He has over 15 published books to his credit, many of them focusing on the Napoleonic campaigns and American Civil War.
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The supreme command for the Viet Cong/North Vietnamese Army (VC/NVA) forces had a coherent strategy for conquering South Vietnam that the Americans neither fully appreciated nor effectively countered. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
High level view of Tet,
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This review is from: Tet Offensive 1968: Turning Point in Vietnam (Paperback)
The book is a high level view of the Tet offensive. There are lots of pictures and maps. The battles of Hue and Saigon are documented well. The Khe Sanh fight and other battles are not as well documented.Peter Arnett's classic line, that he invented, and no military man ever said, "We had to destroy the village to save it." is included. We won the battle, but lost the propaganda war, and thereby the whole war. It is a good book for someone who wants to start learning about the Tet offensive.
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Worthwhile Read,
This review is from: The Tet Offensive 1968 (Paperback)
The Tet Offensive, 1968, by James Arnold is a short, concise, but interesting history of the critical offensive that led to the American withdrawal from Vietnam. While set in the traditional Osprey style, the book deviates from the ususal Ospery book in its focus on the political implications of the offensive.Arnold points out that if one judges the battle from the perspective of the original aims by the North Vietnamese that the offensive was an unambiguous failure. However, what the North Vietnamese, nor for that matter the Americans, did not anticipate were the political implications of the offensive. Juxtaposed against General Westmoreland's statements that the United States was winning the war, the growing mistrust of the military and the mistaken reporting of the taking of the American Embassy, the offensive led to a loss of political will to continue the war. Arnold does a fine job discussing all of the above as well as the essential military details. For a history of the Tet Offensive, the book is a worthwhile read.
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Defeat into Victory,
By Dilip Susruta Samarasinghe (Colombo, Sri Lanka) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tet Offensive 1968: Turning Point in Vietnam (Paperback)
If ever there was a significant military action, it was the Tet Offensive. Its impact on the American psyche was immense as it played a major role in the American pullout from Vietnam. Though the US forces were able in the end to crush the Viet Cong/ North Vietnamese Army offensive in 1968, the scale of the attack unerved the US political and military authorities as they were unable to convince the US public that they had won the battle. It was possibly the first battle to be decided by television coverage and the precursor to the present-day situation. The book on the whole is well presented with many photos of the battles. There a re diagrams and maps, which are useful and its in my view one of the best Osprey titles in the "Trade Edition" series that I have bought.
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