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A look at the Tet Offensive of 1968, without blinders.

Table of Contents

Preface by William Head Introduction by Marc Jason Gilbert and William Head The Tet Offensive by Larry Berman The Tet Offensive and Sino-Vietnamese Relations by John Garver The NLF and the Tet Offensive by Robert Brigham Giap and Mau Than Tet 1968: The Year of the Monkey by Cecil Currey The Tet Offensive and its Aftermath by Ngo Vinh Long My Recollections of the Tet Offensive by Ambassador Bui Diem The Tet Offensive and Middletown: A Study in Contradiction by Anthony O. Edmonds The Warning That Left Something to Chance: Intelligence at Tet by John Prados Don't Bother Me with the Facts; I've Made Up My Mind: The Tet Offensive in the Context of Intelligence and U.S. Strategy by Larry Cable Tet Beyond the Wire: TCK-TKN, the General Offensive-General Uprising by Robert Norse The Battle of Khe Sanh, 1968 by Peter Brush President Johnson and the Decision to Curtail Rolling Thunder by Mark Jacobsen The Myth of Tet: American Failure and the Politics of War by Robert Buzzanco Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

MARC JASON GILBERT is Professor of History at North Georgia University. WILLIAM HEAD is Chief Center Historian at Warner Robins ALC, Robins AFB, Georgia.