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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 208 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 208 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 496 pages. 6.75x4.25x1.37 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 480 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 400 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 208 pages. 7.50x4.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. [14], 594 pages. Illustrations. Map. Vietnamese Glossary. Source Notes. Minor bottom edge staining noted. Minor DJ wear noted. His work was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History and the Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction. Mark Bowden (born 1951) is an American journalist and writer. He is a former national correspondent and longtime contributor to The Atlantic. He is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. It was adapted as a motion picture of the same name that received two Academy Awards. Bowden is also known for Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (2001) about the efforts to take down Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord, and for "Hue 1968," an account of the most significant battle of the Vietnam War. Bowden is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated, Air Mail, Business Insider, and Rolling Stone. He has taught journalism and creative writing at Loyola University Maryland, and was Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Delaware from 2013 to 2017. Bowden believes that young people are just as drawn to "deep" journalism as other generations of people have been. He said in March 2009: "Nothing will ever replace language as the medium of thought, so nothing will replace the well-written, originally-reported story, or the well-reasoned essay." The first battle book from Mark Bowden since his #1 New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down, Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched over one hundred attacks across South Vietnam in what would become known as the Tet Offensive. The lynchpin of Tet was the capture of Hue, Vietnam's intellectual and cultural capital, by 10,000 National Liberation Front troops who descended from hidden camps and surged across the city of 140,000. Within hours the entire city was in their hands save for two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the Front's presence, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city, block by block and building by building, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in the U.S. and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. Hue 1968 is a gripping and moving account of this pivotal moment. First U.S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. John Olson (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 312 pages. 7.00x0.50x10.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 312 pages. 7.00x0.50x10.00 inches. In Stock.