The Myths of TET: The Most Misunderstood Event of the Vietnam War

by Edwin E. Moïse and Edwin Moise

Book Overview

Late in 1967, American officials and military officers pushed an optimistic view of the Vietnam War. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) said that the war was being won, and that Communist strength in South Vietnam was declining. Then came the Tet Offensive of 1968. In its broadest and simplest outline, the conventional wisdom about the offensive--that it was a military defeat for the Communists but a political victory for them, because it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070062502X
• ISBN13: 9780700625024
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"