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Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From remote jungle crossroads to downtown Saigon, the Tet Offensive tells the gripping story of one of the most gruesome and catastrophic battles of the Vietnam War through dramatic re-enactments, archive footage, and personal testimony from survivors.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In mid-1967, the North Vietnam leadership had started planning an offensive intended to win the war in a single stroke. Part military action and part popular uprising, the effort included attacks across South Vietnam, but the most dramatic and successful would be the capture of Huế, the country's intellectual and cultural capital. At 2:30 a.m. on January 31, the first day of the Lunar New Year (called Tet), ten thousand National Liberation Front...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1967, John (Chick) Donohue was a 26-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran working as a merchant seaman when he was challenged one night in a New York City bar. The men gathered at this hearth had lost family and friends in the ongoing war in Vietnam. Now, they were seeing protesters turn on the troops. One neighborhood patriot proposed an idea many might deem preposterous: One of them should sneak into Vietnam, track down their buddies in combat,...
7) The odyssey of Echo Company: the 1968 Tet Offensive and the epic battle to survive the Vietnam War
Author
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the film follows the struggle of a group of brave marines, led by a tough as nails sergeant and his corporal, as they attempt to defend Firebase Gloria during the Tet Offensive, even though they are greatly outgunned and outnumbered.
Publisher
Indie Rights
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two gay American Ranger sergeants fall in love during the intimacy of Viet Nam War combat in 1968. Both traumatized by combat from previous tours, they lead a squad who become aware of their leaders' relationship. Upset by this revelation, the squad must maintain unity if they are to capture an enemy operative and survive. The sergeants must protect their connection despite combat and what others think. They are assigned a new officer, who has lost...
12) Crew chief
Author
Publisher
Daring Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
367 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
lxv, 305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nhã Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or cutting short their lives. After a month of fighting, their beautiful city lies in ruins and thousands of people are dead. Mourning Headband for Hue tells the story of what happened during the fierce North Vietnamese...
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