num_pages: 371
description: Fire in the Streets is the highly detailed combat history of U.S. Marine Corps units in urban combat in Hue City during the 1968 Communist Tet Offensive. The focus of the story is on small units and individual fighting men as they grapple with advancing through the unfamiliar terrain across an urban battlefield. Fire in the Streets spent many years on official U.S. Marine Corps professional reading lists as the best example of modern military operations in urban terrain.
language: English
title: Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968
titlecomplete: Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968
genres: Military Fiction, History, Military History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 128
publisher: Pacifica Military History