 Marines in Hue City: A Portrait of Combat, Tet 1968
by Eric Hammel
List Price: $34.95
Hardcover: 168 pages
ISBN: 0760325219
Publisher: Zenith Press
Publish Date: February 15, 2007
New in Print
Over decades of conflict in Vietnam, Hue, the former imperial capital, had been
spared. But everything changed on January 31, 1968, the eve of the lunar new
year--a national holiday long marked by a mutual ceasefire--when the North
Vietnamese launched a massive offensive. In the cataclysm of violence that
convulsed South Vietnam during the now-infamous Tet Offensive, Hue was
overrun--and the only forces available to counterattack were a handful of
Marine infantry companies based eight miles south of the city. This
photographic history chronicles the savage battle that followed as, for four
excruciating weeks, the Marines of Task Force X-Ray fought house to house and
street by street to retake the city so central to the Vietnamese culture and
psyche. Through photographs taken in the heat of the action, readers will
follow one of the wars most important campaigns, as ground gained is measured
in painstaking inches and every alley, every street corner, every window might
be the last.
About the Author:
Eric Hammel is a well-respected military historian and the author of over
thirty works of military history including the critically acclaimed Iwo Jima:
Portrait of a Battle, Portrait of a Battle, Pacific Warriors:
The U.S. Marines in World War II, Chosin, The Root,
and Fire in the Streets , the definitive narrative account of the
battle for Hue City. He lives in Northern California.
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