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The myths of Tet : the most misunderstood event of the Vietnam War / Edwin E. Moise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moïse, Edwin E., 1946- author.
- Series:
- Modern war studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tet Offensive, 1968.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Military intelligence--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Most of those who study and write about the Vietnam War now agree that the Tet Offensive was militarily a defeat for the Communist forces, since those forces failed to take the cities but suffered very heavy casualties in the attempt. Yet it was a victory for them politically, because it undermined support for the war in the United States. So stated, the conventional wisdom is well founded. Edwin Moise takes the controversies surrounding Tet head on, exposing the errors and misrepresentations in some of the Tet accounts and demonstrating that much of the conventional wisdom is astonishingly inaccurate."--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780700625031
- 0700625038
- OCLC:
- 1012343035
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