Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this revised paperback edition of The Lost Battalion: Controversy and Casualties in the Battle of Hue (1993) brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army's Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. Book jacket. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Charles A. Krohn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is a combat veteran of Vietnam Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface: The Battle of Hue: A Retrospective View and a Few Surprises	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Chapter 1 America's Best	3
Chapter 2 Cast of the Past	10
Chapter 3 Curtain Raiser	13
Chapter 4 Reasonable Worries	19
Chapter 5 Operation Rawhide	22
Chapter 6 Rehearsing the Gladiators	25
Chapter 7 The Death Battalion	30
Chapter 8 Sweet Takes Charge	38
Chapter 9 Historical Moment	41
Chapter 10 Hue's Burning	44
Chapter 11 Getting the Word at Camp Evans	50
Chapter 12 From Camp Evans to PK-17	53
Chapter 13 Dead in Our Tracks	59
Chapter 14 Attack Now	63
Chapter 15 Scudder, A Miracle Man	71
Chapter 16 Cordite Stinks	76
Chapter 17 Artillery Fiasco	79
Chapter 18 Take a Break, Death Will Wait	84
Chapter 19 Day Two: Hell's Last Circle	87
Chapter 20 Saving the Living, Leaving the Dead	93
Chapter 21 Leaving TFP: Our Only Hope	99
Chapter 22 Hugging Jeff	104
Chapter 23 Helvey's Raiders	110
Chapter 24 TFP	115
Chapter 25 Heroes Not Forgotten	120
Chapter 26 After the Battle Is Over	122
Chapter 27 Forgotten Favor Repaid	129
Chapter 28 View from the Other Side	131
Chapter 29 Who Won? Who Lost?	134
Chapter 30 We'll Never Know	136
Chapter 31 Ambiguous Facts	139
Chapter 32 Tet, Meet Desert Storm	144
Chapter 33 Pascagoula Flashback	148
Afterword	150
Appendix 1 Infantry Battalion Organization	154
Appendix 2 Where Are They Now?	155
Appendix 3 The Presidential Unit Citation	156
Appendix 4 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry Killed in Action	158
Appendix 5 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry Supporting Units Killed in Action	161
Appendix 6 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry Distinguished Service Cross	162
Sources	163
Index	165

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