To get to the citadel, Chuck Meadows and his men would ... So did his commanding officer in Hue, a guy named Marcus Gravel. "But Gravel, who recognized the futility of the order, nevertheless ...

How did its geography and its layout, particularly the river and the Citadel, affect how the battle unfolded? Bowden: Well what it did was sort of make the battle of Hue three separate set-piece ...

than any of the earlier books on Hue. The most intense fighting took place in the tight confines of the Citadel in the third week of the battle, by which point the Communist defenders had burrowed ...

VietNamNet Bridge - Under the Nguyen kings, beautiful royal gardens were built inside the Hue Citadel. Today, some of them are still well preserved. VietNamNet Bridge - Under the Nguyen kings, ...

Everywhere but Hue, that is. Thousands of North Vietnamese ... They dug in, defiantly raised their flag atop the walled Citadel, and tried unsuccessfully to rally civilians to their authoritarian ...

de la Susse is a French official who had deep understanding of and loved Vietnamese culture. In an opportunity to visit the Hue royal citadel in the early 1910s, after seeing artifacts in Can Chanh ...