After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam

The Tet Offensive of early 1968 was supposed to mark a turning point in the Vietnam War.  But in spite of a halt to the bombing of the North and the onset of  the Paris peace talks, the year that followed Tet saw the war's fiercest fighting, as a large and awesomely equipped American fighting force found itself bloodied by an enemy that seemed to evaporate before its firepower only to reappear once the smoke cleared.

Drawing on a wealth of oral histories and newly declassified documents, this account shows us the war that television missed - the race riots and drug use that swept the American army; the rampant corruption of t he ARVN; the potent mix of myth and ideology that made the North Vietnamese such formidable foes.