2001年1月1日 · Here are the race riots and drug use that swept the American army; the rampant corruption of the ARVN; the potent mix of myth and ideology that made the North Vietnamese such formidable foes. Panoramic in its scope, riveting in its detail, After Tet is a triumph of military and political history.

Drawing upon recently declassified government documents, accounts by GIs, and his own eye-witness experience as a Marine in Vietnam that year, noted military historian Ronald Spector describes the...

2012年11月28日 · After Tet by Ronald H. Spector. Publication date 1993 Topics Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975., Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States. Publisher Free Press Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1.3G

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1994年3月1日 · The book is not a memoir, however, but a clear and important description of the grim events that followed the Tet offensive. Spector demonstrates that the intensity of the fighting (measured in casualties) compared with periods in World War II, and he does an excellent job of describing the American forces that bore those losses.

In the wake of the TET offensive in March, 1968, Lyndon Johnson announced the cessation of bombing against North Vietnam and his decision not to run for president. Now, in time for the 25th anniversary of the TET offensive, Ronald Spector has written a narrative account of that bloodiest year of the war, a year that largely determined the ...

The TET Offensive of 1968 was supposed to mark a turning point in the war in Vietnam. In this brilliant and harrowing work, the bestselling author of Eagle Against the Sun shows the war that the TV missed--and reveals that TET was only the beginning.

"After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam" will be placed, along with Frances Fitzgerald's "Fire in the Lake," Neil Sheehan's "Bright Shining Lie," Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and Bernard Fall's "Street Without Joy," as an irreplaceable, imminently re-readable reference on …

2023年2月7日 · After Tet, however, U.S. troops' numbers — and public support — started to erode. But how? Why? Well, here's the gist of it. Although the U.S. had better trained troops, more air power and more...