A decade ago, Mark Bowden's publisher suggested he write a book about the Vietnam War. "I'm not really a military writer," the journalist and author says, "and I didn't particularly want to be ...

Author Mark Bowden says the capture of Hue, Vietnam, was part of a wave of well-planned Communist attacks that shocked American commanders and... 'Hue 1968' Revisits An American 'Turning Point' In The ...

Submitted photo — Retired Lt. Col. Tyrus Cobb spoke the local Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) about his experience as the senior adviser to the South Vietnamese during the 1968 Tet ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Atlantic Monthly Press "Hue 1968" by Mark Bowden The Vietnam War wasn’t all that unpopular in the United States until the long and agonizing stories and ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, FX has landed rights to turn the Mark Bowden bestseller Hue 1968 into a limited event series that will span eight-10 hours. Michael Mann and Michael De Luca will ...

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann and Michael De Luca have acquired rights to Hue 1968, and they will shape as an event eight- to 10-hour miniseries Mark Bowden’s kaleidoscopic account of the Tet Offensive that ...

Michael Bowden’s new history Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam pulls off a rare feat: it takes a conflict of terrible scale and consequence, and allows us to see it unfold at ...

This post is part two in a series. In part one, curator Frank Blazich introduced U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel James K. Redding, who served as an advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) ...

A U.S. Marine carries an American flag as he charges across a rubble-strewn courtyard in the old citadel in Hue, South Vietnam, in Feb. 1968 during the Vietnam War. The Marines secured the flag atop a ...

HUE 1968: A TURNING POINT OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIETNAM By Mark Bowden Atlantic Monthly Press, $30, 608 pages A few years ago, I was lecturing my students on strategic surprise. I asked each of them ...

On Jan. 31, 1968, North Vietnamese soldiers shredded the yellow South Vietnamese flag at the Citadel in the ancient city of Hue. They raised a carefully designed new flag, with a yellow national star ...