![]() ![]() It’s kind of hard to say, because what I do is I interview people. How many days of research does it take to write about one day in the book? So, even though there remained a majority of popular support for the war, the anti-war movement really began to pick up steam. ![]() ![]() After the Tet Offensive, the anti-war movement moved into the mainstream. but it was, as I describe in the book, relatively marginal-essentially the kind of people who tend to oppose all wars: pacifists, moral leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. There had been an anti-war movement prior to the Tet Offensive. Every major city or town was hit, but only in Huế, however, was the entire city destroyed. The Tet Offensive shocked everyone primarily because it was so widespread-there were attacks throughout South Vietnam. I was wondering if you could explain where Huế fits into the Tet Offensive. When I first started reading the book, I wasn’t really familiar with Huế, but I was familiar with the Tet Offensive. Houstonia caught up with Bowden for an interview about the infamous battle, the media landscape, and the upcoming 8–10 hour series about this book. The former capital was largely seen as an intellectual hub situated in the center of the country, and, as chronicled in the first section of the book, Hanoi had been planning the Tet Offensive in order to incite a popular uprising across Vietnam. The third largest city in Vietnam at the time, Huế was a symbolic city in the war. ![]()
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