The battle for Hue apparently ended with a victory for the Americans. The communists managed to dislodge themselves, and the flag of South Vietnam flapped over the city again. However, the monthly struggle changed the image of the entire war. What was the real cost of this success?
Bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War
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You will know the course of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War thanks to the book by Mark Bowden "Huế 1968. Vietnam in blood" (Poznań Publishing House 2019).
Hue 1968 is an extremely vivid description of the combat struggle in the largest battle fought by Americans since the end of World War II. Thanks to unprecedented access to the US and Vietnam war archives and interviews with participants on both sides, Bowden tells about each stage of the battle from different points of view.
This vision of the American "victory" shows us the version of war known from the shocking images of Apocalypse Now Coppola and Full Metal Jacket Kubrick . Fought over a month and costing 10,000 dead, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest in the war. When it was over, the American debate never took up the topic of winning the war again, only ways of withdrawing from it.
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