In continuation of its 20th year, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago recently opened its newest exhibit, "Tet and the Battle of Hue." The innovative exhibition features 10 tactile, 3-D ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years after the Tet Offensive and the Battle of Huê, the Newseum’s new exhibit, “The Marines and Tet: The Battle that Changed the Vietnam War,” explores that history-changing event with ...

One day [Marine Theodore Wallace] saw an officer casually aim his rifle and try to shoot a Vietnamese boy in the distance. “Sir, what are you doing?” he’d asked. “He’s probably supplying the [North ...

During the Battle of Hue in February, 1968, 18-year-old U.S. Marine Pfc. A.B. Grantham of Mobile, Ala., was shot in the chest by a North Vietnamese soldier. "I was looking right down the barrel of the ...

BookPeople will present Mark Bowden, author of the blockbuster bestseller, Black Hawk Down, who will talk about his new book, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam. The book tells ...

Here's What You Need to Know: The Tet Offensive marked an unusual turning point in the Vietnam War. Michael Bowden’s new history Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam pulls off a ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: By the time the survivors of the last NVA units slipped out of the city on March 3, Bowden estimates that ten thousand had died in the struggle for Hue—including roughly ...