Describes the massive offensive launched by the Viet Cong during the Tet holiday in 1968 and places it in the context of the entire Vietnamese conflict.

Details the pivotal battle of the Vietnam War, when Vietcong forces attacked major cities throughout South Vietnam during the Vietnamese New Year holiday.

In the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South Vietnam. Though the Communists failed to achieve their tactical and operational objectives, James Willbanks claims Hanoi won a strategic victory. The offensive proved that America's progress was grossly overstated and caused

Wirtz explains why U.S. forces were surprised by the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive in 1968. --Roger Hilsman "Political Science Quarterly"

With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to the fighting, the Tet Offensive of 1968 proved to be the turning point of the Vietnam War. In The Tet Offensive, historian William Thomas Allison