Reddit reviews Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

>It is weirdly easing on my mind to have have some truly horrific, monstrous wars and battles to compare to my virtually playtime-in-comparison events in Iraq.

Man, every time I read something about how it was in Vietnam, I'm glad as hell we got stuck with the desert war and not the jungle one.

Just read Hue 1968 and it sounds like a goddamn meat grinder.

Read the newly released "Hue, 1968" by Mike Bowden. That'll dispel your propaganda.
https://www.amazon.com/Hue-1968-Turning-American-Vietnam-ebook/dp/B071Y87H9H/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1521304877&sr=8-1

It was heavy bombardment of Hue by Navy warships that caused the most deaths (over 10,000) in Hue. There was plenty of US firepower that mostly destroyed the Hue Citadel.

Propaganda has a way of infecting the weak minds. It takes disciplined search for facts that most people won't make. So the "Hue Massacre" was actually the massacre of tens of thousands of people in Hue by US military.

Also, the best description of the propaganda that infects the stupid has been on the web for a couple of decades now - Gareth Porter's investigation written in 1974:
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/porterhue1.html

First two paragraphs:
>> Six years after the stunning communist Tet Offensive of 1968, one of the enduring myths of the Second Indochina War remains essentially unchallenged: the communist "massacre" at Hue. The official version of what happened in Hue has been that the National Liberation Front (NLF) and the North Vietnamese deliberately and systematically murdered not only responsible officials but religious figures, the educated elite and ordinary people, and that burial sites later found yielded some 3,000 bodies, the largest portion of the total of more than 4,700 victims of communist execution.

>> Although there is still much that is not known about what happened in Hue, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the story conveyed to the American public by the South Vietnamese and American propaganda agencies bore little resemblance to the truth, but was, on the contrary, the result of a political warfare campaign by the Saigon government, embellished by the U.S. government and accepted uncritically by the U.S. press. A careful study of the official story of the Hue "massacre" on the one hand, and of the evidence from independent or anti-communist sources on the other, provides a revealing glimpse into efforts by the U.S. press to keep alive fears of a massive "bloodbath."1 It is a myth which has served the U.S. administration interests well in the past, and continues to influence public attitudes deeply today.