1968: The Definitive Year

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US Marines in Vietnam:1968

The Defining Year

Schulimson, Jack, LtCol. Leonard Blasiol, Charles R. Smith, and Capt. David A. Dawson. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: 1968, the Defining Year. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division, United States Marine Corps, 1997. ISBN 0-16-049125-8

Preface and Forward

Chapter 1
A Puzzling War

Chapter2
The 3d Marine Division and the Barrier

Chapter3
War in the Eastern DMZ in Early and Mid-January

Chapter 4
Khe Sanh: Building Up 1968: The Definitive Year

Chapter 5
3d Division War in Southern Quang Tri and Northern Thua Thien, Operations Osceola and Neosho

Chapter 6
Heavy Fighting and Redeployment: The War in Central and Southern I Corps, January 1968

Chapter 7
The Enemy Offensive in the DMZ and Southern Quang Tri, 20 January-8 February

Chapter 8
The Tet Offensive at Da Nang

Chapter 9
The Struggle for Hue-The Battle Begins

Chapter 10
The Struggle for Hue-The Second Phase

Chapter 11
The Struggle for Hue-Stalemate in the Old City