Family Quote by Mark Bowden

“who opposed Hanoi not so much on ideological grounds, but because of its methods. They had seen the VC execute or imprison leaders who…

— Mark Bowden

“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or…

— Mark Bowden

“In this peaceful city, during Tet, it was traditional to send cups of paper with lit candles floating down the Huong like flickering blossoms,…

— Mark Bowden

“I saw no unity of purpose, no consensus on matters of philosophy or history or law. The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty: Was…

— Tim O'Brien

“the final toll of the Battle of Hue numbers well over ten thousand, making it by far the bloodiest of the Vietnam War.”

— Mark Bowden

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply…

— William Shawcross

“On Ho Chi Minh's desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.”

— James W. Loewen

“The Vietnam War was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did…

— Mark Anthony Sullivan

“the Tet surprise was regarded by Westy as proof of Hanoi’s weakness. Nowhere in his understanding of the war was there room for the…

— Mark Bowden

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

— William Westmoreland

“Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.”

— Tatjana Soli

“Vietnam was a noble cause imperfectly pursued”

— Ronald Regan