The Victory That Led To Defeat; Tet Altered Course Of Vietnam War From: The Washington Post | Date: February 1, 1988| Author: Keith B. Richburg | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Twenty years ago on Jan. 31, Nguyen Van Linh was in charge of the Communist Party command structure that staged a surprise attack on the outer ring of this unsuspecting South Vietnamese capital, then named Saigon. He remembers escaping later to a cottage he used as a safehouse just outside the city, and narrowly avoiding an American bombing counterattack.

Col. Nguyen Huu Hanh, then commander of the South Vietnamese Army's fourth special zone in the Mekong Delta near the Cambodian bor...

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