In his strongest attack yet on President Johnson's Vietnam policies, Kennedy said "it is time for the truth - time to drop the mask of official illusion" which he said had been shattered by Communist ...

On Day 6 of Discovery Bicycle Tours’ 12-Day Vietnam Tour, we get to ride (22 miles for the day), biking right from the Pilgrimage Village resort in Hue along country lanes. There is only light local ...

Why tourists are flocking to Vietnam’s battlefields, 50 years on from the war - Places where countless lives were lost have ...

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correctionAn earlier version of this article failed to acknowledge a 2019 New York Times Magazine investigation that made a persuasive case that A.B. Grantham was not actually the Marine in the iconic ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A U.S. Marine holds out his M-16 rifle to pull a wounded comrade to safety during the battle for the city of Hue. More than 200 Americans were killed and 1,500 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Given the choice between writing an intimate and riveting narrative or a more guarded, academic, high-level analysis, Bowden opts for the former. That is no mistake, ...

The Battle of Huế – also called the Siege of Huế – was one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the Vietnam War. Between 30th January and 3rd March, 1968, in the South Vietnamese city of Huế, 11 ...

Mr. Briley is faculty emeritus at Sandia Preparatory School and HNN’s senior book editor. The approaching fiftieth anniversary of the Tet Offensive makes journalist Mark Bowden’s detailed account of ...

(First of all, do we have a perpetual book recommendation thread? I did a search & couldn't find one, but maybe my search-fu is lacking) I've just finished the Kindle version of Mark Bowden's Hue 1968 ...

First published in 1969, this searing eyewitness account of the fighting in the Vietnamese city of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive is republished here in a new translation with a long introduction ...