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Michael Uhl

Hué back when: The bloodbath in Vietnam was us

Review by Michael Uhl / January 31, 2018 / 13 min readSyndicated

By consensus in the school of conventional wisdom the Tet Offensive of 1968 was the turning point of the Vietnam War, after which the American war aim was not to win, but how to get out. Mark Bowden makes an excellent case that the fulcrum of that turning point was the Battle of Hue. But what if there was no turning point?

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