Edwin E. Moise, professor of history at Clemson University, is the author of Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War, the Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War, and other works.
Edwin Moise reminds us anew in The Myths of Tet why he is so highly
regarded as a scholar of the Vietnam War. Moise gathers together
the primary arguments and disputes that have raged over the 1968
Tet Offensive, teases out the evidence about each, and confronts
all of them directly. His arguments are powerful and this book is a
must read for everyone interested in the Vietnam War."" - John
Prados, author of Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War,
1945–1975
""The product of prodigious research using both American and
Vietnamese sources, Professor Moise’s book clearly and in
extraordinary detail exposes some of the most widely-accepted myths
about what was arguably the seminal event of the Vietnam War—the
1968 Tet Offensive. This balanced and voluminously-sourced volume
provides convincing evidence that the communist Tet Offensive was
neither the superbly coordinated strategic surprise that some have
claimed, nor was it the total and abject defeat of the Viet Cong
that is so often described by others. Professor Moise’s book
describes how and why wildly over-optimistic assessments of the
situation by leaders on both sides, American and North Vietnamese,
often in the face of clear and convincing evidence to the contrary,
led to chaos, confusion, and the loss of so many lives on both
sides."" - Merle Pribbenow, translator of Victory in Vietnam: The
Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975
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