North Vietnam's 1972 Easter Offensive: Hanoi's Gamble

"....an excellent summation of an averted disaster....[The]collection of images ranks among the best I have seen in a Vietnam War book." — The VVA Veteran

By the end of 1971, in what Hanoi called the American War and at the height of the Cold War, the fighting had dragged on for eight years with neither side gaining a decisive advantage on the battlefield and talks in Paris to the end the war were going nowhere. While the United States was steadily drawing down its ground forces in South Vie...