The Tet Offensive by Charles River Editors (.ePUB)
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The Tet Offensive: The History and Legacy of the Most Famous Military Campaign of the Vietnam War by Charles River Editors
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Overview: Was the large-scale Communist assault a strategic masterstroke that demolished American popular support for the war effort? Was it a catastrophic misstep that effectively broke the back of the Viet Cong guerrilla forces in South Vietnam? Did Tet expose the Johnson administration’s optimistic pronouncements as a deliberate pattern of lies and obfuscations designed to mislead the American public about the true nature of the war? Or did anti-war elements in the news media betray their public trust by mischaracterizing a substantial American victory as a shocking and catastrophic defeat? In the words of the historian Richard Falk, the Tet Offensive “remains a mirror for restating opposed preconceptions and validating contending ideological biases.” (Falk, 11). Perhaps the only proposition to win universal agreement is that the Tet Offensive represented a significant turning point. The conflict in Vietnam would continue for years after Tet, but it would never be the same.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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