Hué 1968: El punto de inflexión en la guerra del Vietnam (Ariel) (Spanish Edition)

Gracias a un acceso sin precedentes a archivos de la guerra en EEUU y en Vietnam, así como a entrevistas con participantes de ambos bandos, Bowden narra cada fase de esta crucial batalla a través de múltiples puntos de vista. En la madrugada del 31 de enero de 1968, el ejército norvietnamita ejecutó más de un centenar de ataques simultáneos por todo Vietnam del Sur en lo que se acabaría conociendo como la Ofensiva del Tet. El momento clave del Tet fue la captura de Hué, la capital intelectual y cultural de Vietnam. Tras varios días de combates inútiles y letales, el teniente coronel Ernie Cheatham acabaría dando con una estrategia para retomar la ciudad, bloque a bloque y edificio por edificio, en la muestra de combate urbano más intenso desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. "An extraordinary feat of journalism ... full of emotion and color."--Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal 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